Word: murrelets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...replace a modest gravel road in an old-growth forest with a broad, paved highway. Although there is no "Endangered Habitat Act," Phillips and other environmentalists were able, sometimes, to wrap the Endangered Species Act around old-growth forests. Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees. Phillips is awed by the murrelet, a seabird that flies to Washington's forests--farther away every year because of logging--to feed its young...
...Deal, compared with what had been negotiated over the past two years. This legislation requires Pacific Lumber to set aside, for 50 years, an additional 7,000 acres of ancient redwoods that will be off limits to all logging and protected as habitat for the threatened marbled murrelet. The company is also required to set aside an additional 11,000 acres in no-cut buffers next to streams critical to the survival of the endangered coho salmon. It is unfortunate that you characterized what we achieved as saving a few "scraps" of wildlife habitat. BYRON SHER, State Senator Co-Chair...
...Reagan Administration, but they have flourished like mushrooms in the timid Clinton years. They are intended to mollify the rage of landowners against the Endangered Species Act. Well, they might, because they immunize loggers, miners and the like against ESA violations. It is illegal to kill a marbled murrelet or wreck its habitat, but if you should do so while conducting your rightful business, that is an incidental taking. The "Oops!" factor takes over, and you are in the clear. The HCP filed by Pacific Lumber will immunize the company for 50 years...
...been used as a weapon in too many bitter environmental battles. It was the only legal artillery greens had, and it saved the bald eagle, now off the endangered list. Thus far, the spotted owl has saved remnants of old-growth forest. Earlier this year the endangered marbled murrelet, a seabird that nests in Northern California's old redwoods, won a lawsuit against the Pacific Lumber Co., with help from activists of the Environmental Protection Information Center. A federal judge granted a permanent injunction against logging Owl Creek. He rejected a claim that this was a "taking" for which...
...after five days by a state appeals court. John Campbell, Pacific's combative president, shrugs off legal entanglements that have tied up virtually all the firm's old-growth stands since then. Campbell dismisses concern over spotted-owl habitat as "a hoax" and thinks research will show that the murrelet's old-growth needs are exaggerated. But he is proud of an industry award for a model project, done with the state, for rehabilitating erosion damage caused by the firm's logging at Shaw Creek...