1. 'The Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) is a species of true owl. It is a resident species of old-growth forests in western North America, where it nests in tree holes, old bird of prey nests, or rock crevices
.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red list status for the Spotted Owl is Near Threatened with a decreasing population trend
.. In February 2008, a federal judge reinforced a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to designate 8,600,000 acres (35,000 km2) in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico as critical habitat for the owl.' Spotted Owl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. Ten years of research and more than 1,000 published studies detail the threats to its survival, but there's still no sure way to stop its decline. Saving the Spotted Owl : NPR
2. What is the cost of saving the bird, and whats the reason? Have organisms become extinct? And the result?
From the environmentalists' perspective, the benefits of preserving the northern spotted owl and its habitat far outweigh any of the costs .society ought to preserve this species and the unique ecosystem it represents because of their aesthetic value. Ethics and the Environment: The Spotted Owl Controversy
3. The Spotted Owl campaign, as is so very many other environmental campaigns, a deceit. It is a way of advancing the real agenda, confiscating property, making land off-limit, and eliminating any human presence. No matter the cost. No matter the result.
4. Look, I dont doubt that the regulaertory processed thaet we put in place to produce the environmental goods that we wan have taken a toll on the economy generally and the rural economy in particular. Telling the story that rural communities are being harmed may tug at the heartstrings of rural people, but no one else will care.
5. You see, what the sage grouse is about is, they want to stop drilling in beautiful Wyoming. Thats the hidden agenda .Take the spotted owl case .One of the people instrumental in shutting down th forests told me that if the spotted owl hadnt existed, we would have had to invent it. The goal was to stop logging .It is totally questionable whether owls were endangered by logging. Was it good for the overall health of the forest? Probably not. Was it good for the spotted owl? It probably didnt make a difference. Did it hurt the overall economies of the West? Yes.
Nickson, Eco-Fascists, p.129.
6. Holly Fretwell is a Property and Environment Research Center (PERC): Senior Research Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Montana State University. She spent a year auditing the health Forest Services 446 million acres under it and the Bureau of Land Managements command. The effect of fifteen years of sequestration of public lands has been a disaster. Thinning, salvage harvesting, cleaning deadfall are expressly forbidden by environmentalists, the areas are considered by the Forrest Service itself to be in immediate danger of exploding in a once-in-a-millennium fire that would burn so hot that not only would the seeds in the soil die, but also the dirt itself would be burned to dust. Fretwell, Who is Minding the Federal Estate? p. 54.
7. The spotted owl was dying anyway. First of all, its prey was being eaten by the larger barred owl, which had been moving west for the last hundred years, but its supposed natural habitat was dying. In eastern Oregon and Washingtons Blue Mountain forests. 6 million acres are dead and dying. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest- formally designated spotted owl habitat- has so much root rot that it is called the Valley of Death. One breeding pair remains.
Nickson, Op. Cit., p.131.
Yet, somehow, this is a higher value than the people who live and work in these areas.
Really?
a. Ten years of research and more than 1,000 published studies detail the threats to its survival, but there's still no sure way to stop its decline. Saving the Spotted Owl : NPR
2. What is the cost of saving the bird, and whats the reason? Have organisms become extinct? And the result?
From the environmentalists' perspective, the benefits of preserving the northern spotted owl and its habitat far outweigh any of the costs .society ought to preserve this species and the unique ecosystem it represents because of their aesthetic value. Ethics and the Environment: The Spotted Owl Controversy
3. The Spotted Owl campaign, as is so very many other environmental campaigns, a deceit. It is a way of advancing the real agenda, confiscating property, making land off-limit, and eliminating any human presence. No matter the cost. No matter the result.
4. Look, I dont doubt that the regulaertory processed thaet we put in place to produce the environmental goods that we wan have taken a toll on the economy generally and the rural economy in particular. Telling the story that rural communities are being harmed may tug at the heartstrings of rural people, but no one else will care.
5. You see, what the sage grouse is about is, they want to stop drilling in beautiful Wyoming. Thats the hidden agenda .Take the spotted owl case .One of the people instrumental in shutting down th forests told me that if the spotted owl hadnt existed, we would have had to invent it. The goal was to stop logging .It is totally questionable whether owls were endangered by logging. Was it good for the overall health of the forest? Probably not. Was it good for the spotted owl? It probably didnt make a difference. Did it hurt the overall economies of the West? Yes.
Nickson, Eco-Fascists, p.129.
6. Holly Fretwell is a Property and Environment Research Center (PERC): Senior Research Fellow, and an adjunct professor at Montana State University. She spent a year auditing the health Forest Services 446 million acres under it and the Bureau of Land Managements command. The effect of fifteen years of sequestration of public lands has been a disaster. Thinning, salvage harvesting, cleaning deadfall are expressly forbidden by environmentalists, the areas are considered by the Forrest Service itself to be in immediate danger of exploding in a once-in-a-millennium fire that would burn so hot that not only would the seeds in the soil die, but also the dirt itself would be burned to dust. Fretwell, Who is Minding the Federal Estate? p. 54.
7. The spotted owl was dying anyway. First of all, its prey was being eaten by the larger barred owl, which had been moving west for the last hundred years, but its supposed natural habitat was dying. In eastern Oregon and Washingtons Blue Mountain forests. 6 million acres are dead and dying. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest- formally designated spotted owl habitat- has so much root rot that it is called the Valley of Death. One breeding pair remains.
Nickson, Op. Cit., p.131.
Yet, somehow, this is a higher value than the people who live and work in these areas.
Really?
