here's cute little story I saw on KCAL 9...a US Fish and Wildlife biologist is killing barred owls in the northwest, California and Oregon to save spotted owls...he lures them in with a little vocal mimicky gizmo then shoots the barred owl....the biologist says the barred owls are invasive and moving in on the spotted owls territory..and the killing is being done on an Indian reservation...
apparently, migration and expanding territories is worthy of a death sentence for certain birds deemed invasive by idiots like Mark Higley..the barred owl or hoot owl is "native" to North America..it is not "invading" anything except the small brains of the biodiversity biologist fucks..and where is PETA, the US Humane Society, the Audubon Society? too busy fundraising and rubbing elbows with wealthy socialites, no doubt
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:53:27 AM by nickcarraway
killing one species to save another sounds like a drastic solution, but that’s exactly what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is doing in California to protect the Spotted Owl from a predator that happens to be its distant cousin, the Barred Owl. On the Hoopa Indian Reservation near the Oregon border, it’s owl country, but not the kind Mark Higley wants to see.
The tribe’s resident biologist is tracking an invasive species from the east called the barred owl. "Up to the ridge line we have been getting barred owl responses," he said.
At first the birds were a novelty, but now they’re a huge problem because they are taking over the nesting territory of the native spotted owl, a threatened species. Spotted owl numbers have dropped as much as 80-percent in just the last 20 years. So Mark and his research team are taking drastic action, by using recorded calls to lure the barred owls in, and shoot them. "You want to make sure that you take a clean shot where you know you are going to have a clean kill and not wound birds and have them suffer," he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3159008/posts
that's my tax money ill-spent
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| save the hooters!! |
but there you have it..the insanity of biodiversity..a man-made environmental "crisis"...killing thousands of owls to save other owls!! WTF???
savage thoughts raced through my head, I was bleeding from my eyes when I saw this but then it started to rain..real hard.. it was soothing so I went outside and did an owl dance...and then some thunder clapped!! awesome Nature
I am thoroughly disgusted with these asswipe biologists who have deemed themselves better than Mother Nature...and killing these barred owls won't do a thing to save spotted owl..not a thing...populations increase and decrease all the time and shooting a few thousand owls of one species to save owls of another species is stupid and junk science...
as I've said, this is not an ecologiocal issue, it's a psychological issue among these biodiversity biologists...
but the good news is one young woman is taking the biologists to task..she says it's stupid to kill the owls and has filed a lawsuit to stop them..
"I thought it was ridiculous," said Jennifer Barnes. She’s an attorney with the animal rights group Friends of Animals. "As soon as they stop the shooting more of the owls will come in," she said.
Her group has filed a lawsuit to stop the killings, claiming barred owls are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
the benefits of owls I should not have to explain to a biologist...you wanna see rabbits everywhere, rodents everywhere, then start killing the predators....
biologist Mark Higley should be arrested now...along with all the Channel Island "biologists" who killed thousands of animals for NO REASON!!!
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Reduce spotted owl habitat to a postage stamp then defend the few who survived our destruction by wreaking more destruction. And we're oh, so certain that, despite having caused unanticipated consequences, every stinkin' time, that THIS time we know what we're doing. There's an entire school of wildlife biologists who see themselves as the reluctant pragmatists who make the tough choices to blast-away. Funny how killing is so often the only possible compensation for having killed.
All around here are dumb-ass home-made PVC rodent bait traps that admit any critter up to the size of a rabbit who then crawl off to die an excruciating death and pass their poison along to raptors and scavengers who then die instead of helping control the rodents that the bait traps are trying to control. When in doubt, kill something.
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