Thanksgiving eve surprise: Feds to block off 9M acres for spotted owl

Human Events ^ | November 21, 2012 | Audrey Hudson

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Obama administration announced with little fanfare Thanksgiving eve plans to lock up nine million acres of land for the endangered Northern Spotted Owl.

The plan would double the amount of public forest lands proposed by the Bush administration for the owl’s habitat in Oregon, Washington and Northern California, and is expected to severely limit commercial activities like logging.

Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said he is concerned the plan will cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

“Expanding the Northern Spotted Owl’s critical habitat will further endanger the timber industry, the thousands of jobs that the industry supports, and forest health,” Hastings said.

[Nowhere Man]

Note to self, if I see an endangered species where there was none, shoot, shovel, shutup.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The trouble with the spotted owl is that you can eat a whole sack of them and, an hour later, you’re hungry again.

[uncommonsense]

The real endangered species are constitutional conservatives. ObaMao wants to reduce space available for “free range conservatives”

[9YearLurker]

And we should remember that Agenda 21 came about during the first Bush administration. A weak, RINO globalist opposition party will get us nowhere.

[yoe]

One has to wonder at the blind reasoning here - the Spotted Owl is a most resourceful fellow....they can and do live other places than what these nits think they do. Grants, loans, agencies, bureaucrats.........$$$$$$$ -Oh and of course, votes for the next progressives in line.

[redhead]

Bumping

[montomike]

9 million acres equals 14,000 square miles.

Look at it like a square 120 miles x 120 miles.

That’s a lot of land!

[Sicvee]

Here is more thorough explanation with a map:
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/11/obama_administration_increases.html

[null and void]

That was...unexpected...

[lonevoice]

Surprise! Only not.

[SandRat]

They still taste like Chicken.

[Smokin' Joe]

This is really just Agenda 21 disguised as endangered species protection. All land rightfully belongs to the United Nations. The fact that human beings are allowed to live on any of it is just an oversight that they are in the process of correcting.

Bingo!

[goodnesswins]

I think the “feral government” is ALREADY shooting the Barred Owls....

[dfwgator]

99.9% of all species that have ever inhabited this planet are now extinct, and still we get along......nobody will miss the Spotted Owl.

[Truth29]

"99.9% of all species that have ever inhabited this planet are now extinct, and still we get along......nobody will miss the Spotted Owl."

The leftist Marxist Enviro Democrats will. This is about power and control, just like global warming, global cooling, TARP, and all the rest of we know best programs. It is always about power and corruption.

[Army Air Corps]

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[Brad’s Gramma]

This is Thanksgiving...be thankful for your free meals and free winter firewood.

Cut down a tree or two in protest and most definitely get one or more owls.

Sheesh.

[superloser]

the Spotted Owl is a most resourceful fellow

Northwesterners, over the decades, have amassed a gigantic pile of photographs of Spotted Owls ... nesting in barns, nesting in second growth timber, nesting in houses, pretty much everywhere but the habitat the "experts" say is required for them.

The experts, when presented with this evidence, scoffed and told the photographers that while they may have snapped a picture of a Spotted Owl, they know best. So all that evidence was thrown in the trash because, after all, normal people taking pictures of owls are not experts.