Posted on 07/03/2024 2:24:02 PM PDT by DallasBiff
To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their cousins.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy released Wednesday is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. The Associated Press obtained details in advance.
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Humans pretending to be God. This will not end well and is an abomination.
If this means that the overall number of owls is less, won’t that mean an explosion in the numbers of the prey species (such as rodents) that the owls normally kill?
Don’t sport with Mother Nature.
Why don’t they kill the last of the few thousand Spotted Owls instead? That is much easier and saves everyone a lot of hassle.
another bad idea form the people who love bad ideas.
Leave nature the h*ll alone!!!!!!!
our wildlife biologist cooked the books by swapping habitable acreage with total acreage thus changing 100 % habitat saturation to endangered.
i told my boss.
next year i wasn't given another nte 180.
The level of stupid is off the charts.
Seems unfair to kill the barred owl just because the spotted owl has better lobbyists.
our wildlife biologist admitted that to me
“To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species”
Not a problem, just take it to Congress and have them pass a bill to authorize it.
(by the way, know any good oil companies? perhaps Chevron?)
like snakes.....
We had to destroy the village in order to save it.
I wonder what the Spotted Owls did to make God or Gaia angry at them.
They tried this trick in Australia.
Send them all into one of those windmill meat grinders. That’ll learn ‘em.
deploy trained shooters
= = =
After they have started, check if they are using lead.
If so, lock them up.
And how well did it turn out there?
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