On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 StahlfeldE at aol.com wrote:

> I disagree with the concern that someone might shoot the owl because that
> person disagrees with the decision to protect old-growth habitat at possible
> cost to loggers and that industry. Anyone who wanted to log old-growth would
> do everything possible to have the Everett Spotted Owl survive, to "prove"
> that Spotted Owls may not need old-growth timber.

But this assumes we're speaking of someone acting rationally. There are a
lot of angry people on the fringe who wouldn't stop to consider making
political hay of keeping the bird alive. It only takes one wacko to kill
the bird, and there's reason to believe such wackos exist.

Mike Cummings Seattle,WA
"I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar." -Steven Wright