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- When Dueling Government Policies To Save The World Collide
- It is good to generate power using renewable sources like the wind. The Spotted Owl is good as well. In the State of Washington the Spotted Owl is more good then wind power. The state's Department of Natural Resources DNR was thinking of leasing a few thousand...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
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- Northern Spotted Owl Still Faces Extinction in Tacoma, Wash., Area.
- By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 12--The northern spotted owl continues to die out despite curtailment of old-growth logging on federal lands throughout the Pacific Northwest, according to a draft report on population trends ...
- Research articles 2004-05-12
- New effort is under way to protect California spotted owl.
- By Jennifer Bowles, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 2--An owl that lives in old-growth forests in Inland mountains and the Sierra Nevadas is facing increasing threats that could lead to its demise, environmental groups alleged. ...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
- Scientific research and the Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis): Opportunities for major contributions to avian population ecology
- OVERVIEW AMONG ALL avian research programs, results from investigations into the ecology, behavior, life history, and demography of Spotted Owls Strix occidentalis may have had the single greatest effect on land-use policy in the United States. The reasons for that are simple: in general, throughout their ranges, populations of all...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- US plan to protect owl 'polluted by politics': lawmakers
- WASHINGTON AFP — US Democratic lawmakers have accused the Bush administration of "polluting" a plan to protect an endangered owl species and make it more favorable to the timber industry, while scientists have rejected the plan as seriously flawed. In separate letters sent Tuesday to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne,...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- In critical condition/ Owl habitat designation a major threat here
- This week's sudden proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to set aside 13 million acres in four Western states as critical habitat for the allegedly endangered Mexican spotted owl - including more than 569,000 acres in Colorado, much of it overlapping parts of Fort Carson and areas immediately...
- Research articles 2003-11-22
- The Week in Washington: Energy, Smelly Farms and Spotted Owls
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> A Congressional debate over energy took center stage in Washington this week, revealing deep partisan differences over the nation's energy future as well as splits within the Democratic majority on climate change and fuel economy. The Bush administration pushed plans to assess the...
- Research articles 2007-06-15
- Who gives a hoot? Americans debate changing the Endangered Species Act - amendments proposed by Congress - includes related articles
- They're really not very large as owls go--about the size of feathery footballs. And hardly anyone has ever seen them. They live at the tops of trees in remote forests and only come out at night. But just mentioning the name of the northern spotted owl in Oregon and Washington...
- Research articles 1995-09-25
- Washington Timber Plan May Put Owls at Risk.
- By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 3--The state's wildlife biologists are trying to persuade state timber managers to back off a plan they fear could hinder the survival of the imperiled northern spotted owl. ...
- Research articles 2001-08-03
- Dead wood - reform of the U.S. Forest Service
- When the Clinton Administration made Jack Ward Thomas chief of the Forest Service in late 1993, environmentalists couldn't have been happier. Thomas was the agency's senior wildlife biologist who earlier that year had developed Clinton's plan to protect the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest, where furious logging of...
- Research articles 1996-10-01
- Lumber Hedging: Technical Analysis And Risk Management
- Cash lumber prices are often unpredictable and volatile. In recent years, domestic lumber supplies have been constrained due to mill closings, the spotted owl controversy and other environmental concerns. Price, the final arbiter for these and a host of other factors, must react to supply and demand imbalances with frequent...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Conservation Groups Take 2 Legal Actions to Protect CA Spotted Owl; Bush Admin. Logging Proposals Heighten Threat to Survival of Species
- SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign, and six other organizations, represented by Earthjustice, filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiSACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra...
- Research articles 2003-09-03
- Munich in the redwoods: an update. (Beat the Devil) (Column)
- The deal of shame has been struck. Twelve enviromental groups, including the Wilderness Society, National Audubon and four local Audubon chapters, the Northcoast Environmental Center, Headwaters and the Oregon Natural Resources Council, have bowed the knee, licked the boot. On October 7...
- Research articles 1993-11-01
- Updating the old-growth wars - includes related information on conservation of spotted owl and forest management and legislation
- The old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest are the center of a political controversy that may shape national forest and public land policy for decades. It is not a new situation. The animosities have been brewing for years, but it now begins to look like it is no longer possible...
- Research articles 1990-11-01
- Bleeding trees: the Forest Service.
- The US Forest Service is much more concerned with protecting itself than the nation's trees. The more trees that are allowed to be cut down, the more money Congress appropriates to the Forest Service. The task of protecting forests while making sure there is enough timber should not be up...
- Research articles 1992-05-23
- Danger in living. (indoor air-pollution)
- WITHOUT the emotional appeal of a spotted owl or a baby seal, indoor-air pollution IAP is catching on as an environmental cause. An umbrella concept that can cover everything from the smell of a co-worker to cancer-carrying poisons, IAP is said, by the Environmental Protection ...
- Research articles 1990-05-26
- Worthless non-compete covenants can be written off.(United States Internal Revenue Service)(Brief Article)
- Covenants not to compete that become worthless can be written off. A logging firm bought timber rights from competitors. Part of each deal included a covenant not to compete that the firm amortized and deducted. A court subsequently prohibited logging in the area to protect the...
- Research articles 2003-03-28
- Critics: In Northwest Forests, Federal Officials Prefer to Settle than Fight.
- By Les Blumenthal, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 30--WASHINGTON--A decade ago, the northern spotted owl -- an elusive bird that inhabits the ancient forests of the Northwest -- flew into the national spotlight as the symbol of...
- Research articles 2002-12-30
- Natural Resources Department to Delay Logging near Olympia, Wash.
- By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 23--The Department of Natural Resources will postpone logging on between 14,000 and 15,000 acres of prime spotted owl habitat southwest of Olympia until at least 2007, spokesman Todd Myers...
- Research articles 2003-01-23
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