spotted owl

[kingbee]

http://news.yahoo.com/u-plan-targets-barred-owls-save-spotted-owls-133319184.html

“SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - ”The greatest threat in the U.S. to the northern spotted owl, an imperilled bird at the centre of a decades-old environmental clash in the Pacific Northwest, is no longer the timber industry -- it's another owl.

The federal government says it plans to launch a program to kill or otherwise remove hundreds of barred owls -- originally from the East Coast -- that are overtaking the spotted owl's natural range in Washington state, Oregon and northern California….”

Oh boy!  The Green Agenda is driven by nothing more than vague feelings of guilt, likely related to the young environmentalist parents being to lenient with their children during toilet training.   I do hope that Ted Turner is forced to house a displaced lumber jack family in each of his mansions to make up for twenty years of lost wages and opportunities in the Pacific North West’s timber industry. 

[AllenF]

I had thought we had killed out all them good tasting spotted owls and replaced them with a better adapted owl.

[affreux]

I figure anything that needs the amount of land they say it needs to survive needs to be extinct.

[kingbee]

  I had thought we had killed out all them good tasting spotted owls and

replaced them with a better adapted owl.

Spotted Owl, the other white meat!

[G3farms]

they are really over rated, taste just like chicken!!

[BlueBee]

I’m not a radical environmentalist, but can’t be let anything else live?

I’ve never seen any of these spotted owl things, but those old growth Thuja Plicata’s in the Pacific Northwest are worth some conservation on their own right. 

I figure anything that needs the amount of land they say it needs to survive needs to be extinct.

Hmmmm….how much land do humans need?

[AllenF]

If an animal is replaced with a better adapted animal, even if that animal may have been placed there by man, isn't that the way nature works?  We do not have giant sloths around here anymore for a reason.

[BlueBee]

Giant Sloths?  I thought the varrroa mites did them in?

What’s better adapted; humans, spotted owls, mosquitoes, or cockroaches?  So what are our odds in ‘natures way’?

[Irwin]

  I had thought we had killed out all them good tasting spotted owls and

replaced them with a better adapted owl.

Spotted Owl, the other white meat!

It's really a dark meat 

[kingbee]

If an animal is replaced with a better adapted animal... isn't that the

way nature works?  We do not have giant sloths around here anymore...

Ssh, bee very very quite about 'them' giant sloths.  If the environmentalist findout they will begin lobbying to reintroduce these super sized critters.  They have already reintroduced wolves, bears, and other predator species that are better adapted to living in a wilderness with little human contact and without domestic livestock to gnaw on.

The point of my original post was that you can not depend on environmentalism's words or "scientific" knowledge.  They to often manipulate the facts to produce the results that environmentalist want and need to justify their biases and advance their agendas.

[bee-nuts]

"The point of my original post was that you can not depend on environmentalism's words or "scientific" knowledge.  They to often manipulate the facts to produce the results that environmentalist want and need to justify their biases and advance their agendas."

You can replace "environmentalism's" or "scientific" with "Human/s" and you will cover the whole spectrum around the globe.

[kingbee]

... You can replace "environmentalism's" or "scientific" with "Human/s"

and you will cover the whole spectrum...

That is true for everyone but you and I....