Spotted_Owl

Spotted Owl ENVR 100 INTERNET ASSIGNMENT Website 1: “Brighter future for Spotted Owl in British Columbia” 31-10-2002 http://www.birdlife.net/news/news/2002/10/705.html Fact 1: Interfor says it will withdraw operations from designated Spotted Owl management areas. Fact 2: There are currently fewer than 25 breeding pairs of Spotted Owls in south west BC. Explanation: Interfor logging company has planned to stop logging in some areas that are home to some of the last remaining Spotted Owls of BC. Although environmentalists feel this is a step in the right direction, the logging company plans to follow the BC Government’s Spotted Owl Management Plan which has apparently been criticized in the past for itself contributing to a population decline of over 70% in the last seven years. Research on the Northern Spotted Owl has documented its dependence on coastal old-growth forests and the majority of old-growth in this owl’s range has already been logged. Those owls that remain are in some jeopardy as their populations will continue to decline as long as long as old-growth forest logging continues. Website 2: “Spotted Owls Going Extinct in Canada” 17-09-2002 http://www.forestethics.org/html/eng/434.shtml Fact 1: The plight of the owl is an indicator of both the poor health of BC’s forest ecosystems and the unwillingness of federal and provincial governments to protect spotted, owl, old-growth, logging, forests, species, forest, fact, bc, habitat, endangered, owls, british, about, survive, long, home, explanation, due, columbia, been, years, website, suzuki, stopping, pairs, one-time-only, management, loss, legal, last, government, fewer, ecosystems, decline