The plan involves having professionals shoot the birds??? From the article.
>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes a proposal to cull barred owls along the West Coast will prevent the spotted owl’s extinction in California and Pacific Northwest forests.
>The recent spread of barred owls has had a dramatic impact on spotted owl population in the forests along the West Coast. The Fish and Wildlife Service estimates it has declined by 75% over the past two decades.
>Robin Bown, a Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who is the agency’s barred owl strategy lead, said the management plan will not eliminate barred owls from the West Coast altogether.
>”Both species will remain,” Bown said, adding that the program would eliminate only about 0.5% of the country’s barred owls.
Good, we have to protect native species. If you don’t like it, I ask you to present an alternative for reducing the population.
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The plan involves having professionals shoot the birds??? From the article.
>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes a proposal to cull barred owls along the West Coast will prevent the spotted owl’s extinction in California and Pacific Northwest forests.
>The recent spread of barred owls has had a dramatic impact on spotted owl population in the forests along the West Coast. The Fish and Wildlife Service estimates it has declined by 75% over the past two decades.
>Robin Bown, a Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who is the agency’s barred owl strategy lead, said the management plan will not eliminate barred owls from the West Coast altogether.
>”Both species will remain,” Bown said, adding that the program would eliminate only about 0.5% of the country’s barred owls.
Good, we have to protect native species. If you don’t like it, I ask you to present an alternative for reducing the population.