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To: sense who wrote (28014)	4/11/2014 12:15:59 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Recommended By Geoff Altman Respond to of 124875

That's what it looks like to me too. When I was active on the ground, the spotted owl was the tortoise. Advocates claimed that it was endangered, which I did not really believe, but I still had to live with it. I saw one flying into a stand of mature (not old growth) timber that was surrounded by second growth or clearcut (this was on private land). But it was a convenient hook on which to hang obstruction. Before that they used the pileated woodpecker, but we successfully modified our management practices to provide the necessary habitat, so it was no longer an effective hook. We had sort of a "pet" spotted owl that we used to show people and groups what they looked like. The nest was close to a road, so it was easy to walk up to it and watch how it swooped down on poor hapless gerbils that the biologists brought out. Now the entire timber management program is a shadow of its former self so I guess the pileated a spotted critters are safe now. I don't object to adjusting practices to accommodate sensitive species. What I do object to is organized groups using them as a weapon. It is only slightly less objectionable that driving spikes into old growth trees to terrorize loggers who might be hurt or killed when they cut into them with their chain saws.