Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a limit to this environmental freakattitude that Gore supports," Michael said. Intough economic times, he said, humans takeprecedence over "the spotted owl and overgrowngarter snakes...
Ever since 1989, it became clear that the northern spotted owl was endangered and that much of its natural habitat would be destroyed if unrestricted logging practices continued in Washington and Oregon...
...reclusive owl is fast approaching extinction in places like Forks. Without the tall trees and well-shaded environment of the oldgrowth forest, the owl loses areas needed for nesting, canopy needed for cover and rotting longs needed to support its prey--mice and other rodents--on the forest floor. To put it plainly: no old trees, no spotted owl...
Just bringing up the logging issue with locals unleashes an attack on environmentalists and owls alike. Bob Bray, 46, a gas station attendant who lives in Forks, says if it wasn't for the logging industry there would be no community. "People outside Forks use the owl as an excuse to limit logging." Bray told me this past summer. "If it wasn't the owl it would be something else...
...There's a limit to this environmental freakattitude that Gore supports," Michael said. Intough economic times, he said, humans takeprecedence over "the spotted owl and overgrowngarter snakes...