That is really encouraging news! Thank you for the update, Jon. :-)

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Jon Houghton <jon.houghton at hartcrowser.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tweets - Some news to report on the Hawk Owl incident: First, I
> received the following update from Christy Nielson of Okanogan: ?Yesterday
> (2/5) I drove up to Cassimer Bar Road and found that the home owner has
> razed the abandoned building and chopped down every tree in the vicinity
> where the owl was found, then set it all alight into a smoldering pile.?
> Today I spoke with the USFWS enforcement officer with whom I?d been
> communicating on the case, and he confirmed Christie?s report. He says that
> the joint investigation by several agencies (feds, tribe) has gone very
> well, and the case is now in the court system. (He said that they usually
> end up with a dead bird and no supporting evidence.) But for the bird
> getting hung up in the tree, we would all have thought - oh well, the just
> bird moved on. In this case, the autopsy and site investigations pretty
> much confirmed the sequence of events as documented by on-site observations
> of the birding community (special thanks to Sandy Schreven, Tom Mansfield,
> and Christy). I?m thinking that the actual punishment handed down by the
> courts won?t matter so much as the fact that the individual in question has
> been held accountable and the broader community is aware that there are
> consequences from this sort of behavior. But again - we need to be sure
> our behavior around private property does nothing to trigger this sort of
> reaction. Happy Birding - it?s spring!! - Jon Houghton, Edmonds
>
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