Do loggers really hate Old Growth Forests? Or. Ah. Don't they know what they are actually doing?

...But the towering cedars, firs, hemlocks, and spruces (click title to entry - thank you) which have served as the owl's habitat, also have become a primary source of timber for a multi-billion dollar logging industry. Over the last 150 years, as a result of heavy logging, these ancient forests have dwindled. Only about 10% of the forests remain, most on federally owned lands. And as the forests have dwindled, so too has the number of spotted owls. Biologists estimate that only 2,000 pairs survive today....

The exact number of spotted owls is difficult to track.  No one knows how many there are but scientists document a downward trend.  The decline is most severe in Washington - about 7 percent a year.

This Spotted Owl has been banded for protection.  It will provide valuable information to those trying desperately to safe them from extinction.  This owl and the Old Age Forests where it lives are endangered today as direct result of greed and Wall Street.


Where are the ethics?  Why is there no respect for life over profits?  Oh, there isn't.  Make no mistake.  Besides nature, Americans learned the ruthlessness of the Health Care Insurance Industry priorities placing profits over human life.  So, ah, like, what is this mess already?
































Spotted owl is a kind of forest animal that can only breed in old-growth forests-forests that have never been touched by human activities. In order to breed successfully and gather enough food for its young, a single pair of spotted owls needs about 100 acres (40 hectares) of old-growth forest. Spotted owl populations have declined as old-growth forests have been cut down.


The Northern Spotted Owl is an INDICATOR species.  The fact it is now endangered loudly states the condition of the forest.  The decline of the Northern Spotted Owl is due to human exploitation and NOT natural processes.  Its habitat, the Old Age Forests, have been decimated.

Northern spotted owl marks 20 years on endangered species list (click here)

Published: Friday, June 25, 2010, 8:20 PM     

Updated: Saturday, February 05, 2011, 3:44 PM

Eric Forsman was a 21-year-old undergraduate working the summer at a Forest Service guard station in the Willamette National Forest when he first heard an odd barking call. 

Curious, Forsman scouted and listened hard, eventually realizing he was hearing a bird he had never heard before. Later that summer, his first northern spotted owl flew in. 

The owl, characteristic of its breed, showed little fear. It gave Forsman a "big brown-eyed look." 

"Once I heard what they sounded like," he says, "I started looking for them." 

What Forsman and fellow researchers found after that summer of 1968 led to the owl's listing as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act on June 26, 1990 -- 20 years ago today....