Posted on 12/25/2023 5:40:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another.
That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argues in its proposal to allow the agency to shoot hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in West Coast forests. The service says the barred owl, which is not native to the region, is crowding out the spotted owl, a close genetic relative.
Without action against the barred owls, service biologists say the spotted owl could disappear from parts of Washington and Oregon within a few years and eventually go extinct.
The proposal is the latest in a series of efforts to save the spotted owl, whose decline became a rallying point for environmentalists opposed to logging in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s.
Human influence — as European settlers spread west — likely caused the barred owl to colonize the Pacific Northwest. Now, the proposal raises questions about how far people should go to save a species and the costs of righting a historic ecological wrong.
“It’s not the barred owls’ fault. It’s our fault for bringing them out here. It’s not the spotted owls’ fault either,” said Robin Brown, a Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who is the agency’s barred owl strategy lead. “The species’ future is extinction if we don’t manage barred owls. The writing is on the wall.”
The agency’s proposal, which calls for a total of more than 470,000 barred owls to be “lethally removed” — killed with shotguns — remains in draft form and is open for public comment through Jan. 16.
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Nothing could go wrong here.
What if the government employees shoot the Spotted Owls by mistake?
They jut don’t get. Ask the Aussies about messing with the natural order of things.
Screw the owls, Let’s kill all the musilms to protect humanity.
Here we go with the spotted owl again. Why not just let nature take its course? If they need so much protection from humans all the time maybe they should go the way of the Dodo bird rather than kill a bunch of other birds to save them.
Spots or Barred. Still taste like chicken.
Idiocy on parade.
Coming soon to an ethnic cleansing near you. 🙄
“...hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years...”
Put another way you’ve got 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210, etc. years of gummit involvement, 100’s of new government union employees with benefits most of us will never get ad infinitum as we pay for them, DEI style of course because of an owl problem. Another three-letter agency that needs its budget chopped in half forever.
how far people should go to save a species and the costs of righting a historic ecological wrong.
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This is the key phrase. This is “environmental justice,” much like “social justice,” just another tactic to take our money and make way for Marx.
“Owls”
Yes, what could go wrong? When this kind of tampering is done, the results are rarely what was intended or expected. Whether we like the outcome or not, nature at least always attains an equilibrium.
Evolutionist making their own results. What hypocrites!
Exactly. Species have been displacing other species forever. Most species that ever existed have gone extinct. If the barred owl is better at doing owl stuff, it will win out eventually no matter what.
The inmates are indeed running the asylum.
Is anyone else rooting for the Barred Owl like I am?
Haven’t they heard of Darwinian Evolution?
Survival of the fittest?
Is the Spotted Owl the American version of the Chinese panda?
Unable to survive without human intervention?
bullies in school, lawn jarts, bb guns, biking without a helmet,
anti stupid laws added " do not eat" labels to items like laundry detergent,
they banned dodgeball. ugh.
stupid has florished in a bubble wrapped childhood. now they cant cross the street without a light. and kill one owl to save another.
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