BS this is from the liberal tree huggers who shut down real forest management in the 70’s and 80’s.
What we are seeing now with all the fires is exactly what the professional forest managers predicted would happen when they did it.
They should have issued every logger a shotgun and paid a bounty on the spotted owl which was really nothing more than a common barn owl that chose to live in a tree.
The left had to lie to get what they wanted even way back then.
Just so you know, the spotted owl is a subspecies not of the barn owl, but of the common barred owl, with which it can interbreed; that’s why environmentalists came up with the idea of destroying barred owls to “protect” the spotted owls, even though the only reason there are spotted owls at all is because in ancient times they evolved from a population of barred owls that became isolated during a glaciation. Spotted and barred owls True Owls- Strigidae... cannot interbreed with barn owls which are quite a different family - Tytonidae.