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The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:41 pm
The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls
A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups.
On Monday, a coalition of 75 animal rights and wildlife protection organizations sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking her to scrap what they describe as a "reckless plan" to wipe out half a million barred owls in West Coast states over the next three decades.
The letter, spearheaded by the Animal Wellness Action group and the Center for a Humane Economy, lambastes the plan for being unworkable and short-sighted, arguing that it will lead to the wrong owls being shot and disruption to nesting behavior.
"Implementing a decades-long plan to unleash untold numbers of 'hunters' in sensitive forest ecosystems is a case of single-species myopia regarding wildlife control," states the letter, signed by Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action, and Scott Edwards, general counsel for the Center for a Humane Economy.
Federal wildlife officials believe the action is necessary to control the population of the barred owl — which they consider invasive — and give the threatened northern spotted owls a fighting chance on their home turf.
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A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups.
On Monday, a coalition of 75 animal rights and wildlife protection organizations sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking her to scrap what they describe as a "reckless plan" to wipe out half a million barred owls in West Coast states over the next three decades.
The letter, spearheaded by the Animal Wellness Action group and the Center for a Humane Economy, lambastes the plan for being unworkable and short-sighted, arguing that it will lead to the wrong owls being shot and disruption to nesting behavior.
"Implementing a decades-long plan to unleash untold numbers of 'hunters' in sensitive forest ecosystems is a case of single-species myopia regarding wildlife control," states the letter, signed by Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action, and Scott Edwards, general counsel for the Center for a Humane Economy.
Federal wildlife officials believe the action is necessary to control the population of the barred owl — which they consider invasive — and give the threatened northern spotted owls a fighting chance on their home turf.
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Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:43 pm to djmed
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invasive owls
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:47 pm to djmed
We know Natural Selection is racist.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:48 pm to djmed
How did they get there? If they migrated and are taking over, in my opinion they earned it. If some dumbass released a bunch, like with the python in Florida, that's a different story.
This post was edited on 3/29/24 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:54 pm to djmed
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A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands
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Half a million
Wee bit of a jump, huh?
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:56 pm to Oates Mustache
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How did they get there? If they migrated and are taking over, in my opinion they earned it.
What if it were human changes in land management that allowed it to occur? Not talking climate change, like introducing forests in grasslands.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 2:56 pm to usc6158
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invasive owls
I mean, who could have seen it? An invasive species coming from a foreign land, displacing and attacking the natives, and then being hunted by a better organized group.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:00 pm to djmed
The number of illegal aliens on the West Coast far outnumbers 500k illegal owls. Priorities 
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:01 pm to Oates Mustache
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How did they get there? If they migrated and are taking over, in my opinion they earned it.
Barred Owls are native to North America, they've just expanded their range from the eastern US.
This is the range of the Spotted Owl
I don't know what right the solution is, seems like any time we try to intervene, we just frick stuff up.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:01 pm to fr33manator
Prediction: Hanta virus will become an even more major health threat. Owls catch mice and eat them. Mice carry hanta virus on the critters that live on mice and go into houses with the mice.
Is there any guarantee that the endangered owls will have a population surge, or do they even like to eat mice?
Take away a mouse predator and mice populations will surge. Hanta will spread.
That old phrase: "What can possibly go wrong?"
Is there any guarantee that the endangered owls will have a population surge, or do they even like to eat mice?
Take away a mouse predator and mice populations will surge. Hanta will spread.
That old phrase: "What can possibly go wrong?"
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:02 pm to Oates Mustache
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How did they get there? If they migrated and are taking over, in my opinion they earned it. If some dumbass released a bunch, like with the python in Florida, that's a different story.
Looks like a mysterious migration.
https://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/addressing-owl-conservation#:~:text=A%20Westward%20Migration&text=Having%20somewhat%20mysteriously%20made%20the,California%20by%20the%20mid%2D1970s.
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Historically, the barred owl was solely the “eastern cousin” to the northern spotted owl, sticking to the forests east of the Great Plains. Having somewhat mysteriously made the migration westward, barred owls began their “formal” invasion of the forest territory of the spotted owls in 1959. This occurred first in British Columbia, then expanded into Washington and Oregon around 1970, finally reaching California by the mid-1970s. The first sighting of the barred owl in Marin County came in 2003. During the same period, northern spotted owl populations were declining rapidly, and the species was formally listed as endangered in 1990. Biologists cited old-growth habitat loss as the bird’s primary threat, but another pattern was emerging: it seemed that over time, the number of spotted owls was becoming inversely proportional to that of barred owls.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:05 pm to djmed
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:06 pm to mdomingue
Barred Owls? Are they better in gumbo or sauce piquant
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:25 pm to Trevaylin
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Barred Owls? Are they better in gumbo or sauce piquant
I think either, pretty much prepared the same ways you would do with a red-tailed hawk.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:30 pm to Trevaylin
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Are they better in gumbo or sauce piquant
Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:32 pm to djmed
killing one species of owl to save another
I guess the iNvasive oNe needed to be eradicated
sad
I guess the iNvasive oNe needed to be eradicated
sad
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:33 pm to djmed
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The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls
I wish they would just take out one West Coast Ag.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:11 pm to djmed
I need pics to see which one is the coolest looking before I make my decision.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:15 pm to djmed
I was SO excited until I got to the word “owls”.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:18 pm to BOSCEAUX
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I need pics to see which one is the coolest looking before I make my decision.
Barred (2nd one) looks cooler, imo.
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