Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resident of Eliot House, I have experienced first hand the ravages inflicted by the Spotted Owl Crowd...
...comes from local ranchers and hunting outfitters who fear that the predators will kill livestock and deplete game and that tight restrictions will be placed on land use as a way of protecting the animal's habitat. The ranchers see the wolf as their own version of the spotted owl...
...Using some of the most cynical rhetoric of this politics-as-sausage-making season, the "No on Three" campaign has attempted to depict the moderate ballot question as the embodiment of all the evils associated with legislation of this sort--President Bush with his repeated denunciations of the "spotted owl crowd" would be proud...
...president wants to override the Endangered Species Act in order to allow logging in previously protected areas of the Pacific Northwest's virgin forest. A federal court has temporarily blocked the action, since it would lead to the extinction of the spotted owl and thus violate...
Bush's stance on the spotted owl issue reveals his political desperation. In an attempt to woo Oregon and Washington voters, many of whom are connected to the logging industry and have lost their jobs during the last 10 years, the president reverted to scapegoating tactics and blamed the owl for the industry's economic woes...