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Article: WE CAN'T SAVE THE OWL AND CUT DOWN THE FOREST.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 21, 1995
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Byline: Ellen Goodman
BOSTON The problem is that the spotted owl has no respect for private property. Birds are like that.
A toddler can be taught not to step on a neighbor's lawn. A schoolchild can learn not to chase a ball over the fence. Adults can carve a rambling topography into square subdivisions, and allot ownership over mountains, valleys, prairies.
But birds claim territory by an entirely different set of rules. The rules of nature. The rules of their nature. And when those rules are broken, they disappear.
So it is that two ideas, about property and about the use and ownership of nature, came into conflict before the ...