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?
like snakes.....
Yes-that is what always happens when some bunch of lunatics decide to decimate or eliminate a predator species from an area, but they do not learn-in a year or so, Oregon will have a plague of rodents-or even better-snakes and lizards...
Yep. So, then we need more cats. Nope, cats have fleas.
OK, so we need to poison the rodents! But then that’d likely poison more animals. And fish because the rains will come and wash the poison into the rivers. Then there will be a boil water notice, not that boiling would kill off the poison but the sheeple will have heard boil your water so much that no one questions it anymore. Dang, humans are stupid.
I could never understand why leftist believers in evolution want to stop evolution in its tracks by preventing extinction to take place.
The species alarmists are the same people who want to stop climate change in its tracks.
They are chasing an unattainable result in both cases.
But then again, there are those pesky temptations called government research grants to chase.