If you ask me, the Barred Owl is being used as a scapegoat. The main cause of the Spotted Owl's demise is the logging of old-growth forests.

Barry Ulman
Bellingham, WA.


On Feb 7, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Kevin Purcell wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Douglas Canning wrote:
>
>> The two most recent issues of Northwestern Naturalist carry a two-part
>> paper titled: "Killing Barred Owls to Help Spotted Owls I: A Global
>> Perspective" (91(2): 107 - 133), and "Killing Barred Owls to Help
>> Spotted Owls II: Implications for Many Other Range-expanding Species
>> (91(3): 251 - 270).
>
> It would help the discussion if these papers were more widely available online.
>
> They are written by Kent B. Livezey of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington Fish and Wildlife Office in Lacey, WA who has done a lot of work on Spotted Owls (as one can tell from the paper's he's published).
>
> Abstracts at BioOne so you can see the overall thrust of the paper
>
> http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1898/NWN09-37.1
>
> http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1898/NWN09-38.1
>
> Today Orgeon Live has a similar report report is well done. Though the comment thread brings up pretty much all the issues you are going to hear more of in the next 6 months or so (from "spotted owls killed forestry" all the way to "evolution is a myth" ... yikes).
>
> http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/02/make_this_call_in_the_wild_sho.html
>

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