FReepmail me to be added or removed to the ECO-PING list!
Ecological problems rarely have simple solutions (i.e. save the forests- save the owls). Instead of preserving a museum forest, you need to ensure that that landscape is allowed to change and adjust. It amazes me how short-sighted people can be.
I thin the brush and use travel routes as owl flyways with tall trees at the corners, both of which they need. Rat nests go up in flames like a gallon of diesel so I leave only those that aren't under a tree. I've also added a barn owl box to see if I can get those re-established. It's become so wooded around here because of fire suppression that the great horned owls have chased out the barn owls completely.
It's a complicated balance all righty.