it also annoys me that the original directive was to replace jobs lost in the lumber industry with government positions.
I mean, what brilliant individual decided to remove profitable, productive workers, contributing to the GDP, and make them public workers.
.... oh yeah, it's a Clinton thing. Forget I said anything.
Maybe they died of old age?
Who gives a hoot?
I love spotted owl gumbo.
Oh, but you KNOW what they'll say:
"OH, My! **Snif** We were too late, the damage had already been done... boohoohoo..."
Or .. could it be that the owl's decline is due to the dense forest - which maybe the owl's don't like.
Wasn't part of the environmentalist whackos obstruction of thinning the forests - to protect the owls ..?? And .. now the owls don't like the dense forests ..?? Which should prove to people that these environmentalist whackos - DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
Well, duhhh!
The wood products industry in the Northwest supports a lot more jobs than just loggers, sawmill and papermill workers. Each job in the wood industry supports something like 5 other jobs in the area from hospitals to service stations to insurance salesmen.
Does the Forest Service really need to hire enironmental anthropologists to tell them that?
If you stop and think about it, spotted owls eat small rodents. Rodents eat seeds. In really old growth forest, the forest floor is almost bare of the plants that provide seeds for rodents. However, in new growth forest, there isn't much for the owls to nest in. As a result, the owls really prefer medium growth forest, where there is both nesting and lots of plants to feed their prey. Instead of following this logic, the Forest Service prohibited logging in medium growth forests as well as in old growth.
As medium growth forests age into old growth, they become less hospitable to spotted owls. However, since the old growth is no longer being logged off, there is no opportunity for new growth to start and age into medium growth. As you'd expect, then, spotted owl population is declining.
In reality, spotted owls also grow well in scrub desert in the Southwest, and in oak savannahs in the Cadcade Range. The whole argument over spotted owls was an attempt by the envirofascists to end logging, using the owls as an excuse.
I've explained this in much more detail in my chapter "Science and Public Policy," in Michael Gough's book POLITICIZING SCIENCE, published by Hoover Institution Press. (shameless plug)
As per usual, I didn't feel any compelling need to read the article. However, the decline in Temple Football has nothing to do with logging and everything to do with bad decisions and ineptitude by the TU Administration.
Peter J. Liacouras put trust in Ron Dickerson to be able to recruit top athletes, and to some extent he was successful (Stacy Mack, Tre Johnson, etc.) but his replacement, Bobby Wallace, has been completely over his head for the last seven years. It's not enough to recruit, you have to develop and coach at this level. For this, I blame erstwhile homosexual, President David Adamany. Adamany and his flunky AD Bill Bradshaw, have been either asleep at the wheel or slowly trying to kill the program despite what the board of directors say.
Dropping N.C. State for Wisconsin and Dropping MTSU for Western Michigan, puts us in line for the ultimate embarrassment, a no win season.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Where did that 606,000 new acres of middle to old growth forests come from? They would have only aged 10 years in this time frame. This article makes no sense.
Oh my, you mean we've been duped again by the envorweenies? The whackos have destroyed people's lives, jobs and businesses, all for the sake of "feel good science". I call that domestic terrorism. Find the SOBs responsible and send them to GITMO!
They planted the wrong trees. Poor little owls.
WHAT A CONCEPT..
" A decade after the Clinton administration reduced logging in national forests in the Northwest, scientists have concluded the forests are growing, but the population of the threatened northern spotted owl has declined."
BOO HOO...must have been all the people saving the trees and wiping with a spotted owl instead...
The spotted owl crisis did what it set out to do: bankrupt the logging industry.
EnvironMENTALists applauded and moved on to some other manufactured crisis...screw the owls.
The more trees, the more shade, the more shade, the fewer freckles, maybe we need to start using paint guns.