Posted on 11/09/2021 6:32:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that would have opened millions of acres of forest in Oregon, Washington and California to potential logging.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed a decision made five days before Trump left office to drastically shrink so-called critical habitat for the spotted owl. The small, reclusive bird has been in decline for decades as old-growth forests disappear.
The Associated Press obtained details on Tuesday’s action prior to it being made public.
Government biologists objected to the changes under Trump and warned they would put the spotted owl on a path to extinction, documents show.
But Trump’s Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and former Fish and Wildlife Service Director Aurelia Skipwith dismissed those concerns — instead adopting a plan to lift restrictions on more land than even the timber industry had sought.
Officials said in documents provided to AP that Bernhardt and Skipwith underestimated the threat of extinction and relied on a “faulty interpretation of the science” to reach their decision.
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So?
Hundreds out of work and another USA asset denied because of a damn owl. What ever happened to common sense?
The reason this is an “AP Exclusive” is obvious.
Probably what's faulty is the "science" by environmental wackos to justify habitat protections in the first place .
The concept that the northern spotted owl is a different species than the California spotted owl or the Mexican spotted owl is faulty science.
The AP is fake news.
This is the organization that shared office space with Jew hating terrorists and said they had NO IDEA that Hamas was there....
AP is not credible.
I’ve had enough faulty science shoved down my throat for one lifetime. (COVID)
The Marxists use the word ‘science’ like they use the word ‘racist’ at every opportunity, whether it has relevance or meaning or neither or both. A pox on them all.
If the “Northern Spotted Owl goes extinct, won’t the “Southern Spotted Owl” just move into its habitat?
The Spotted Owl is disappearing because Barred Owls are kicking them out.
“Replacement migration” is good, right?
Not the “spotted owl again!?
I thought we already killed them all off ?s
You know what the Loggers say about Spotted Owl?
Tastes like chicken.
Tastes better with dolphin meat. “Mom, the spotted owl doesn’t taste as good as it used to!”
Faulty science used to cut down some trees.
Faulty science used to kill thousands, destroy an economy, push a massive science/medical experiment and line the pockets of the drug companies and Wall St.
Hmmmmmm........
Old growth forests are being destroyed by the bark beetle, not logging. The bark beetle spread was due to not providing clear cut breaks in the forests for the last 40 years. It is a man caused disaster endangering those owls,(if they really are endangered,) but it is not from logging.
But not the owl habitat! Donald! I'm done!
Bush/Cheney 2024!
It’s also faulty science to say that spotted owls can only exist in old-growth forest. I spent much of the summer of 1979 doing a census of the spotted owls in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon, and by no means all of the owls were living in old growth. I have since seen and heard them in cut-over areas elsewhere as well.
These same owls were nesting in a K-Mart sign....
They are not endangered.
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