Just piping up here..
I am not an owl expert but,
Would non lethal population control methods be suitable, such as sterilization, to maintain or slowly reduce barred owl populations in the area? This has been proposed and tentatively tested on wolves and caribou populations.Would killing of barred owls just create a void where more owls may move in requiring more killing? If removal of individuals is important short term I would also be reluctantly in favor of that but not long term.
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> From: dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com> To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:24:43 -0700> CC: > Subject: [Tweeters] re: killing Barred Owls doesn't help> > Exactly my point, Brett. If it would help to kill off the Barred Owls, I too > would favor that....but I don't think it will. As long as humans continue to > "go forth and multiply", species will be forced out of existance. We as a > species ourselves just don't get it.> > Dianna Moore> Ocean Shores, Wa.> dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com> > _______________________________________________> Tweeters mailing list> Tweeters at u.washington.edu> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
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