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GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) — Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch armed bird specialists into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction.
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The agency's preferred course of action calls for killing 3,603 barred owls in four study areas in Oregon, Washington and Northern California over the next four years.
http://www.kgw.com/news/national/216682931.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/07/killing_barred_owls_will_aid_r.html
http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/map-barred-owl-migration-into-spotted-owl-range-11.jpg
I hope they have owl tags this fall, why let the government do all the killing.
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