Plan to kill 450,000 owls creates odd political bedfellows — loggers and environmentalists

Plan to kill 450,000 owls creates odd political bedfellows — loggers and environmentalists

The strange political bedfellows created by efforts to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest just got even stranger.

Plan to kill 450,000 owls creates odd political bedfellows—loggers and environmentalists

The strange political bedfellows created by efforts to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest just got even stranger.

Billion-Dollar Kill Plan of North American Owls

The plan will also enable killing of threatened spotted owls and also open up timber cutting in old growth forests WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today expressed deep disappointment with Democrat Senators for sinking a resolution led by Senator John Kennedy, R-La., to disapprove the U.S. Fish ... Read more The post U.S. Senate Rejects Resolution to Halt Unprecedented, Unworkable, Billion-Dollar Kill…

Timber industry joins environmentalists in support of controversial owl cull

A federal plan to kill up to 450,000 barred owls to save the threatened northern spotted owl has sparked surprising alliances, with loggers siding with conservationists to defend the cull against a Republican-led effort to stop it.