Professional “owl terrorists” scare off barred owls with shotguns in the name of conservation.. In the Pacific Northwest, the barred owl is being shot to save the spotted owl. Is it working?
The northern spotted owl is again in trouble. The biggest threat to their survival this time is not a logger with a chainsaw. It is a bigger, more aggressive owl.
It always was about the barred owl intruding into spotted owl territory. It never was about loss of habitat. This goes way back, when. bunch of jackass college students from some ngo drove around in the forests and said, yup, looks like spotted owl country to me, and the lumber industry was brought to its knees.
Tastes kinda like cicada.