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Article: Report: Forest Service disrupted owl research to assist big timber. (Originated from Phoenix Gazette)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 6, 1994
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PHOENIX _ U.S. Forest Service managers have hampered efforts to protect the Mexican spotted owl in Arizona and New Mexico by making inappropriate demands for timber harvests, an independent consultant claims.
Hired by the Forest Service last year, Virginia-based Laurence Jahn also said the Forest Service ostracized an agency biologist who spoke out about harmful effects of logging.
The biologist, the report said, was the subject to a government investigation into his past ``with the reported objective being to discredit him as incompetent or unobjective.''
``That objective was not fulfilled,'' Jahn wrote.
His findings were made in a February report on ...