Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA.
gorgebirds at juno.com
360-835-5947

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:22:13 EST StahlfeldE at aol.com writes:
>Tweeters:
>
>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.

I have worked in the Timber Industry for 29 years, and I think
you are giving to much credit to my co-workers. Not only should they be
protecting an owl out of old-growth habitat, they should be protecting
them in all areas. If a shortage of Spotted Owls would halt logging, the
logical course for timber workers would to be to do all they can to
increase the owl population. I have yet to hear of a forest resource
industry plan to construct owl nest boxes or conduct a supplemental
feeding program. To the contrary I know of loggers who carry shotguns in
their log trucks and pickups in case they see an owl. Most of these
people couldn't tell a Spotted Owl from a Northern Pygmy Ow. I have tried
to explain to some loggers in Northern Idaho that they don't have Spotted
Owls there and their reply was that they would make sure of that by
shooting every owl they saw.


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