Calif. scientists plan to kill barred owls (to save spotted owls)

Monterey Herald ^ | 6/15/05 | Jeff Barnard - AP

[NormsRevenge]

fyi

[LauraJean]

I guess some animals are more equal than others.

[eeriegeno]

These people really have to get a life?????

[expatpat]

Why do they feel they have to play God. Let God sort the species out.

[jimtorr]

A graphic illustration on how ecofreaks have made the once proud USFS the enemy of all creatures, not just people.

[End Times Sentinel]

Good thinkin'!  I've noticed a few too many of those pesky Bald Eagles and blame them for fewer bunnies than I'd like to see.  I don't think anybody would mind me "culling the herd" so to speak.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[nhoward14]

What happened to natural selection, survival of the fittest, the supremacy of nature, etc.????

I guess it all depends on which animal is cuter.

[PzLdr]

And what do they shoot when the barred owls become endangered?

[GhostSoldier]

Great extract from the Farm LJ...!

[Carry_Okie]

Our grubamint evolutionists seem to hate natural selection when it comes to maintaining their gravy train.

Who'da thunk it?

[mmercier]

The left at its finest, they shall now assume the role of a God.

I guess a committee decides who lives and who dies... Wait till they get their hands on some real power, not just the power to shoot a few birds.

Shooting those birds, incidentally, would get the average man incarcerated for a decade, but seeing as a committee of communist Godmen decided it was "right", they will be hailed as environmental Saviour's.

They are just pigs.

[ClaireSolt]

Here's one cut in the budget I would support.

[dalereed]

"And what do they shoot when the barred owls become endangered?"

The over population of spotted owls that they created!

[nhoward14]

Scientists said the [Republicans], which became a symbol of [corporations' efforts to preserve the capitalist economy in the US], are competing with the more common [Democrats] for [housing] and food. The [Republicans], which have migrated to the west from the [Deep South], also [defeat the Democrats in fair elections].

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Kill all the people on the West Coast so nobody can see if the owls are extinct or not.

Makes about as much sense to me.

And what if some trigger-happy federal scientist shoots a few spotted owls by mistake?

And where is PETA in this mix?

[PzLdr]

If Spotted Owls can only live in old growth forests, where did they live when all the forests were new? [This is the ornithological version of "when does the all important loss column" become all important].

[Leo Carpathian]

Scientists said the "removal" experiment would be the best way to quickly determine whether barred owls are pushing spotted owls toward extinction.

Stoooopid! Put some spots on barred owls - problem solved.

[SoDak]

Dang, first thing that came to mind and you beat me to it.

[Osage Orange]

I wonder if this will happen to Conservatives...once Liberals become endangered?