Word: owl
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...near Humboldt Bay. Thron and pilot Lew Nash, a volunteer for the environmental flying service Lighthawk, point out fragments of what was an enormous woodland. There is one intact 3,000-acre forest called Headwaters -- the largest uncut stand anywhere still in private hands -- and smaller clusters surviving around Owl Creek, Allen Creek and Shaw Creek. All are listed for cutting. "They want to turn all that into lawn furniture and hot-tub decking," Thron yells over the Cessna's intercom. A much larger area of nearly 40,000 acres is scarred and scraped by bulldozers, its salmon-spawning streams...
Pacific Lumber has been logging for 125 years and is accustomed to indulgent treatment by state forestry officials. Now several local creatures are on endangered-species lists: not only the murrelets but also the spotted owl, the peregrine falcon, the bald eagle and a couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific giant salamander and the tailed frog. While Coho salmon still spawn in Headwaters streams, stocks of this once plentiful game fish have crashed so sharply off California -- in part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations...
...party at the Owl Club Saturday evening was shut down by state, Cambridge and Harvard police after a scuffle between an officer and a Harvard student resulted in both being maced...
...have absolutely no comment," said a person answering the telephone at the Owl Club last night. The club's president did not return repeated calls yesterday...
...there any wine here? No no no, it was just beer, keg parties, stuff like that. And it'd depend on where you were at, what final club you went to. You know, the Lampoon is a different party altogether than from like, say, you go to the Owl Club. That's whole, a whole, a whole different ballgame...