Spotted Owl

Feds to Designate 9.6 Million Acres as 'Critical Habitat' for Spotted Owl   (TheBlaze/AP) - The northern spotted owl is expected to be   allocated roughly 9.6 million acres of forest land to protect it from extinction- roughly twice what was dedicated during the Bush administration in 2008.   This is how they take away our property. they use the Endangered Species Act which was "created" thru the UN.    This is how they collapsed our paper industry.  Area that they want to take away from us and then note the list of the   "UNSUSTAINABLE" items. timber is one thing we are NOT ALLOWED to keep. how do you think they are going to remove TIMBER as in WOOD out of our "environment". They block us using a warm and fuzzy animal!   In this May 8, 2003, a northern spotted owl named Obsidian by U.S. Forest Service employees sits in a tree in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore.   The full > "critical habitat" plan will not be published until next week, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that areas of Oregon, Washington and Northern California will come under its provisions, almost all of it federal lands   <http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/Species/Data/NorthernSpottedOwl/Critical Habitat/default.asp   The amount is down from nearly14 million acres proposed last February,but far exceeds the 5.3 million acres proposed in 2008. The biggest cut came in private timberlands -1.3 million acres. State forests covering 271,000 acres remain.   Following a directive last February from the White House, officials revised the latest plan to make room for thinning and logging inside critical habitat to reduce the danger of wildfire and improve the health of forests.   Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity said it appeared the critical habitat plan and the previously adopted owl recovery strategy were back in line with the Northwest Forest Plan adopted in 1994 to protect owls and salmon.   "In restoring extensive protections on federal lands, today's decision .marks the end of a dark chapter in the Endangered Species Act's implementation when politics were allowed to blot out science," he said."The owl has continued to decline since its protection under the Endangered Species Act. Part of the reason for that is the loss of habitat on private and s tate lands."   But Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist for the GEOS Institute and a former member of the spotted owl recovery team, objected to plans to log and thin forests inside the critical habitat area, saying no studies have been done on how it could harm the owls. He added that one study shows it reduces the amount of prey available.   <http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2012/9-6-million-acres-protected- as-critical-habitat-for-northern-spotted-owls> .   "We need to focus on protecting and restoring our remaining mature and old-growth forests across all lands, so we can recover endangered wildlife and produce sustainable jobs in rural communities," Joseph Vaile, the program director of the Klamath- Siskiyou Wildlands Center in Ashland, Oregon added   <http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2012/9-6-million-acres-protected-as-critical- habitat-for-northern-spotted-owls> .   The designation of the spotted owl as a threatened species in 1990 triggered a 90% cutback in logging on national forests in the northwest and similar reductions spread around the nation.   Even so, the spotted owl has seen a 40% decline during the past   25 years, Fish and Wildlife officials said.   The Bush administration tried to undue some protections for the owls and other species to allow for more logging, but the effort was turned   back in court.   The timber industry reserved detailed comment on the latest proposal until it can look at the full plan.

From the UN Agenda 21 document we get the following:

“UN Biodiversity Assessment Report:  What is Unsustainable?

Paved/tarred roads/highways/rails

Logging activities/harvesting timber

Power line construction

Ski resorts/Golf Courses

Fossil fuels

Agricultural equipment

Pesticides/Fertilizer

Grazing of livestock: cows, sheep, goats, horses etc.

Plowing of soil

Building of fences

Dam/reservoirs/straightening of rivers

Single family homes

Industry

Private property

Population Growth

Home Schooling”

Source: (TheBlaze/AP) –November 25, 2012, Posted on
November 22, 2012 at 8:40pm by Erica Ritz Spotted Owl
Granted 9.6 Million Acres of Critical Habitat Land | Agenda 21 <http://www.theblaze.com/blog/author/ericaritz>

Comments:

Forest fires on unoccupied federal land have destroyed the species these clowns wanted to protect in the first place. The Spotted Owl was given 9.6 million acres and it almost killed them.  We had our private property and our ability to make a living taken away. When timber was allowed to be harvested, we had far fewer forest fires and much better forest management.  We need to return to responsible harvesting of trees before the forest fires destroy everything.

My observation of wildlife is that, if left alone, they act in their own best interest, which is more than you can say for us.  I think continuing to sponsor the UN is unsustainable.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader