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Northern Spotted Owl Needs Your Help Please
attend one of the hearings and help us send a strong message
that shows we care about protecting spotted owls and old growth
forests!
The way the Recovery Plan stands now,
it would undermine all the work that's been done over the
last fifteen years. It would eliminate old growth reserves
and allow each National Forest to decide individually how
much habitat to protect.
The Fish and Wildlife Service will hold
four public hearings: One in Washington, one in California
and two in Oregon.
May 22, Roseburg, OR
Douglas County Fairgrounds Complex
Conference Hall
2110 SW Frear Street
Roseburg, OR 97470
May 23, Redding, CA
Redding Convention Center
700 Auditorium Drive
Redding, CA 96001
May 30, Portland, OR
Oregon Convention Center
Portland Ballroom
777 Northeast Martin Luther King, Jr. BLVD
Portland, OR 97212
May 31, Olympia, WA
St. Martin’s University
Norman Worthington Conference Center
5300 Pacific Ave, SE
Lacey, WA 98503
Background:
On April 26, the Bush administration released “The Northern
Spotted Owl Draft Recovery Plan.” The northern spotted
owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species
Act in 1990, and critical habitat was designated in 1992.
Recovery of the owl is about more than this one species. Like
a canary in a coal mine the owl is an indicator species of
the health of the remaining old growth forests, clean water,
salmon and habitat for many other species.
In early 2006, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service assembled a Northern Spotted Owl Recovery to assist
in the development of the recovery plan. The 12-member Team
represented State and Federal agencies as well as stakeholder
groups within the range of the northern spotted owl. The Recovery
Team agreed to work collaboratively, however this model was
later abandoned in favor of high level federal administration
interference.
Please stay tuned for
Audubon's action alert on this topic and
talking points to send in comments.
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