US EditionLawmakers Urge Trump Administration to Halt $1.35 Billion Barred Owl Removal Plan
- A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged the Trump administration to cancel plans to kill over 450,000 barred owls, citing high costs of $3,000 per bird and total expenses potentially exceeding $1.3 billion.
- The lawmakers argued that this plan is an inappropriate and inefficient use of U.S. Taxpayer dollars.
- An estimated 100,000 barred owls inhabit areas with approximately 7,100 spotted owls, which could become extinct, highlighting ecological concerns regarding their decline.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had previously approved a plan to remove barred owls, which has sparked controversy among wildlife advocates and raised questions about its effectiveness.
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Fort Bend Herald
Animal Wellness ActionRepublican and Democratic Lawmakers Call on Interior Secretary to Nix Barred Owl Kill Plan as Too Expensive, Unworkable, Inhumane
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Troy E. Nehls, R-Tex., and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., penned a letter with 17 of their House colleagues to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum asking him to scuttle a Fish and Wildlife Service plan to oversee the…
Lawmakers Call for Ceasefire in Fight Against Barred Owls - WhoWhatWhy
Lawmakers Call for Ceasefire in Fight Against Barred Owls (Maria) The author writes, “A Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill scads of barred owls to protect the threatened northern spotted owl drew a bipartisan rebuke Monday, as 19 House members urged Interior Secretary Doug Burgum not to pull the trigger. In a letter led by Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas and Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California, the lawmakers informed Burgu…
Lawmakers ask Interior Sec. Burgum to halt plan to kill barred owls to protect spotted owls
After the spotted owl was listed as a threatened species in 1990, the federal government limited logging on millions of acres of federal land in the Pacific Northwest. This led to no increase in spotted owl populations.
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Lawmakers urge Trump administration to cancel owl-killing plan, say it would cost too much
A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.
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