Fish and Wildlife Takes New Tack on Spotted Owl Recovery Plan
With six months to go before the release of a final recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday a new strategy for saving the bird from extinction. Read more…
Bush Administration Tries to Reverse Old-Growth Forest Protection Plan
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is trying to dismantle a 1994 landmark management plan that balances logging, endangered species and old-growth forest protections. Read more…
New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West
GALICE, Ore. — A 1990s’ truce that quieted the bitter wars between loggers and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest is in danger of collapse. Read more…
Water, fish at risk under forest plan, EPA says
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is in the process of revising its recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A draft version of the recovery plan, which will be finalized in 2008, already has drawn stinging criticism in several scientific peer reviews for failing to use the best science in narrowing protected areas for the birds. Read more…
Old Trees, New Plan
The fight over old growth may resume with the latest BLM logging proposal
COTTAGE GROVE – They come upon the big trees partway up a ridge west of Susan Gabriel’s land just outside Cottage Grove. Gabriel lives in a modest house on 20 acres in a narrow trough among the hills that rise up to the Coast Range, a place famous for growing some of the world’s tallest trees. Read more…
Spotted Owl Plan Under Fire
More than 100 scientists called on the U.S. Department of the Interior Tuesday to scrap its draft recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, suggesting political pressure produced a plan that would open more federal forest land to logging. Read more…
Scientists Say Revised Plan for Owl Mired in Politics
WASHINGTON — More than 100 outside scientists suggested Tuesday that political pressure may have led federal officials to water down protections for the northern spotted owl in a recently revised recovery plan for the threatened bird. Read more…
Scientists See Politics in Spotted Owl Plan
More than 100 independent scientists suggested yesterday that political pressure may have led federal officials to water down protections for the northern spotted owl in a recently revised recovery plan for the threatened bird. Read more…
Allegations Intensify About Owl Plan
Grazing on Monument Land Denied Upon Appeal
An appeals board has upheld the rejection of two applications to graze cattle on a former ranch that is now part of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Read more…
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