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Give a Hoot, Don't Uproot
Interior Department urged to redo recovery plan for spotted owl |
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03 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 3:15 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Was the Interior Department's recovery plan for the northern spotted owl watered down because of political pressure to favor logging interests? Six peer reviews of the plan (five of them funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) suggest yes. So do 113 scientists who sent a letter yesterday asking the Interior Department to rewrite its draft plan, which favored shooting ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, habitat loss, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Raptor 'Round Their Fingers
U.S. suggests saving imperiled owls by shooting other owls |
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05 Jun 2007 |
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| Raptor 'Round Their Fingers U.S. suggests saving imperiled owls by shooting other owls Despite 17 years of conservation measures, the northern spotted owl is still in trouble. So the Bush administration has issued a cease-and-desist order on logging in the owl's Pacific Northwest habitat. Ha ha ha! No, the feds' recent draft spotted-owl protection plan instead vilifies the barred owl, a nonnative competito ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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