Posted on 10/14/2022 6:19:24 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Some things in life are hard to understand and explain. The theory of relativity, for example, or the origins of black holes. Other things are easy to grasp, however.
Such as: California’s wildfire woes. In the past five years summer and fall firestorms have killed dozens of people, wiped out homes, businesses and entire communities, torched millions of acres of forestlands, caused billions in property losses, and swept away untold numbers of animals and wildlife.
The cause of all this wreckage is easy to pinpoint. It’s simple as two words: spotted owl.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaglobe.com ...
Now California burns two billion board feet of lumber a year. The great horn and barred owls came in and are eating all of the spotted owls anyway.
I might be a bit ‘tarded, but wouldn’t massive fires not help said owl?...
Ahhh, my favorite soup.
A classic spotted owl stew recipe simmering in white wine and vegetables is sure to bring comfort to your table. If you don’t want to use the wine, just add an additional 1/4 cup of owl broth as a substitute.
Ingredients
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 Spotted Owls well plucked and minus the heads and feet
2 teaspoons butter
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup fat-free, lower-sodium owl broth
1/4 cup dry white wine
2 cups (3-inch) julienne-cut carrot
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Deep woods owls have a better and piquant flavor than those from near human habitations
The natural habitat of the Spotted Owl is burned forests, since wildfires were once a natural part of the ecology.
The very policies they have implemented to save it are wiping it out.
And the salmon. Anything within a certain distance of a “salmon run” was put off limits. Which, between the owls and fish is everywhere in the state. I remember watching the volunteers “hooting” to count spotted owls when I was working for Cal Dept of Forestry, It was such a scam. They would walk through the forest “hoot hooting” and pretend to hear a replying spotted owl and tuh duh. The area was off limits to logging. They didn’t have to actually see the birds, just hear them. And it just so happened that everywhere logging was going to start the volunteers would find another spotted owl to shut it down. AND we were all told spotted owls ONLY nest in “old growth.” They couldn’t explain why they made their nests in signs, buildings, and city trees all around Crescent City.
Spotted owl shawarma for me...
In the go-go days of the ‘80s the timber industry harvested two billion board feet of lumber a year on public lands. That figure has since fallen to 60 million board feet annually. The federal Northwest Forest Plan adopted in the mid-1990s reduced logging in national forests by 80 percent.
Now California burns two billion board feet of lumber a year. The great horn and barred owls came in and are eating all of the spotted owls anyway.
It’s not the “Spotted owl”, it’s the “government response” to said Spotted Owl. They picked the wrong two words.
The TAX revenue carried our local schools and county road department. 25% of timber tax went to our schools and
25% to our roads.
I’m from a logging community here in Kalifornia. Live next door to one of the largest mills now long gone.
Since fetuses and eggs aren’t humans yet according to the left, is it agaisnt the law to eat spotted owl egg omlettes?
Wrong 2 words.
Correction:
Fire Ecology are the correct 2 words to broach a solution, but don't try to tell that to libs or bureaucrats now using wildfire as a crux to secure more public funding.
The local fire here continues to blanket the area in choking smoke and they portend that "we are making progress" toward containment when, in fact, they conveniently ignore what happened after the raging fire season of 2020.
They never contained anything: Mother Nature and the Fall rains put the fires out.
I am sick to death of hearing the century-old gaslighting,
Only YOU can prevent wildfire.But it's a simple litmus test to expose people for what they are if they actually believe/support it.
Don’t forget the Townsend Big Eared Bat.
This isn’t about owls or ecology. It’s not even about fires. It’s about having something to protest, which gets lots of money. It’s about making a living off “protecting the environment.”
This is why gay marriage wasn’t about gay marriage. They got gay marriage and then moved on to trans and indoctrinating children. If these people don’t have something to protest and therefore something to get paid for then they have no reason to exist, and they’d have to get real jobs. If you have no job skills, how do you survive?
This is why we’ll never be free from the loonie left. You can give them everything they ask for and they’ll move on to something even weirder.
Back in the late 80’s one of the other lumber traders had a box on his desk:
Spotted Owl Helper
Spotted Owls were the means. Socialism is the goal.
I always wondered what would happen if it was proven that wind turbines were killings spotted owls or sage grouse...
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always The Revolution.
“AND we were all told spotted owls ONLY nest in “old growth.”
In California that’s a true statement as the state refuses to clear ground cover so they are nesting in old highly flammable dead or dying overgrowth that has been a vast threat to the cities concerning fires. This little eco stupidity has taken out 1000’s of people from their homes over the last 25 years and done millions of dollars of damage. Perfect for the owls, disaster for the humans.
wy69
Yeah, let’s kill everything and breed up billions more humans to cram into every inch of the planet.
Sound forestry management could harvest the timber AND sustain wildlife populations and control fires. Politics is the root of this problem, not owls.
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