Word: owl
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Blank does not limit himself to art cars. He has made two films. His first was a risque college project at the University of California at Santa Cruz. It was called "In the Land of the Owl Turds: In Search of True Love" and featured him in a bathtub, his naked body painted green...
CAPE CANAVERAL WOODPECKERS Costly shuttlepecking ended by owl decoys and spooky balloons
...environmental rulings in decades, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the 1973 law prohibits not only direct harm to endangered species, but also to their natural surroundings. The timber industry and Oregon landowners, irked for years by costly protections the law afforded dwindling species including the infamous Spotted Owl, had argued successfully before a federal appeals court last year that the government's interpretation was too broad. (That decision said only direct threats, such as hunting or trapping, were covered.) Today's ruling, however,only accelerated pro-landowner sentiment in Congress, where the legislation itself may be endangered...
...fact is, the Endangered Species Act has 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...
...troubled fish or wildlife, while the Clinton Administration defends the government's right to impose restrictions over commercial activities on private property to protect endangered species. The case centers on Oregon loggers who want to cut trees on private lands that are the habitat of the threatened northern spotted owl...