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Article: Where many an owl is spotted: loggers on welfare while spotted owls flourish - but ecologists don't give a hoot.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 2, 1992
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IN JANUARY, the United States Forest Service (USFS) set aside 7 million acres for the northern spotted owl. The cost--from 33,000 to 100,000 well paid logging industry jobs--is comparable to last month's GM layoffs of 74,000 auto workers. But the owl requires these "dwindling patches of the West's virgin forests" to survive, as the Wall Street Journal once reported.
Misreported, actually. There is an impressive array of evidence that spotted owls are thriving on millions of acres of privately and publicly managed second-groth forests--the kind that grow up after logging. This evidence was acknowledged by report of the Jack Ward Thomas Committee (composed of ...