This whole thing pisses me off! The arrogance of the left and their inability too see that micromanaging anything comes with consequences. This is a perfect representation of Marxism and why it never works.

Remember The Spotted Owl Bull Shit?
How the left used a single specie to kill the entire logging industry?
I do, I was one of the people working on the program. Truth is, they lied, the only reason the specie was endangered, it's too trusting and docile.
Logging had nothing to do with it, that was just an excuse to kill off an industry, no other reason. The owl as a specie was long in decline because other species were stronger and adapted well to varying environments.
So what does the Fed do about it? Kill the Barred Owl in hopes of saving the Spotted owl. Thing about the spotted owl back in the 90s, it may have been in decline, but during the years long survey, it was discovered it cross bred with another breed of owl, so regardless of one specie in decline, another invariably takes its place.
This is pure BS, let the animal take its natural course! This is natural selection, this is evolution, this is LIFE!!!


CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — As he stood amid the thick old-growth forests in the coastal range of Oregon, Dave Wiens was nervous. Before he trained to shoot his first barred owl, he had never fired a gun.

He eyed the big female owl, her feathers streaked brown and white, perched on a branch at just the right distance. Then he squeezed the trigger and the owl fell to the forest floor, its carcass adding to a running tally of more than 2,400 barred owls killed so far in a controversial experiment by the U.S. government to test whether the northern spotted owl's rapid decline in the Pacific Northwest can be stopped by killing its aggressive East Coast cousin.




Wiens is the son of a well-known ornithologist and grew up fascinated by birds, and his graduate research in owl interactions helped lay the groundwork for this tense moment.

"It's a little distasteful, I think, to go out killing owls to save another owl species," said Wiens, a biologist who still views each shooting as "gut-wrenching" as the first. "Nonetheless, I also feel like from a conservation standpoint, our back was up against the wall. We knew that barred owls were outcompeting spotted owls and their populations were going haywire."

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The federal government has been trying for decades to save the northern spotted owl, a native bird that sparked an intense battle over logging across Washington, Oregon and California decades ago.

After the owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990, earning it a cover on Time Magazine, federal officials halted logging on millions of acres of old-growth forests on federal lands to protect the bird's habitat. But the birds' population continued to decline.

Meanwhile, researchers, including Wiens, began documenting another threat — larger, more aggressive barred owls competing with spotted owls for food and space and displacing them in some areas.

In almost all ways, the barred owl is the spotted owl's worst enemy: They reproduce more often, have more babies per year and eat the same prey, like squirrels and wood rats. And they now outnumber spotted owls in many areas of the native bird's historic range.

So in a last-ditch effort to see whether they can save spotted owls, federal officials are resorting to killing hundreds of federally protected barred owls.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experiment, which began in 2015, has raised thorny questions: To what extent can we reverse declines that have unfolded over decades, often due partially to actions by humans? And as climate change continues to shake up the landscape, displacing species and altering how and where plants and animals live and thrive, how should we intervene?

How about not at all, you stupid fucks, let Nature takes its own course!!!

More, and pictures as well.

https://www.apnews.com/69730cac7ade4f73b36f4c59a0e7dea7

And when they are done killing their 3500 Barred Owls and find out that was the problem, then they will never admit that they were wrong.

Quote from: carolina73 on October 15, 2019, 09:19:02 AM
And when they are done killing their 3500 Barred Owls and find out that was the problem, then they will never admit that they were wrong.

Libs admit they were wrong?

This is a perfect example of leftist failed policy. Nature and capitalism work within the same laws, but libs come along and think they can improve on perfection.

This reminds me of the Military "strategey" in Vietnam:

"We have to destroy the village to save it"

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on October 15, 2019, 02:50:46 PM
This reminds me of the Military "strategey" in Vietnam:

"We have to destroy the village to save it"

Bingo!!! Burn the huts, that way the enemy can't occupy them.
What's funny in all of this is the hiring of an ethics adviser. In what world do these people live that they don't understand "Natural Selection"?