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In the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, the northern spotted owl, a rare and fragile subspecies of spotted owl, is being muscled out of its limited habitat by the barred owl, its larger and more ornery northeastern cousin. The opportunistic barred owl has been moving in on spotted owl turf for more than half a century, competing with the locals for food and space, outnumbering, out-reproducing and inevitably chasing them out of their nesting spots. Barred owls have also emerged as a thr

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A plan to shoot barred owls to help the native spotted owl ignores the root cause of this dilemma: logging, logging, logging.

The way things are going, we simply won’t be able to have or save everything anymore.

A proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency to shoot naturally migrating barred owls because they are moving into spotted owl territory is fraught and ought to be rethought.