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Stop the $1.35 Billion Barred Owl Slaughter The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a 30 year plan to slaughter 500,000 native barred owls which birds protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for more than a century. Their reasoning? These owls share habitat with their threatened cousins, the northern and California spotted owls. But instead of protecting forests and tackling the real drivers of decline: logging, climate change, and poor management. USFWS is scapegoating one species

Stop the $1.35 Billion Owl Slaughter The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a 30 year plan to slaughter 500,000 native barred owls which birds protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for more than a century. Their reasoning? These owls share habitat with their threatened cousins, the northern and California spotted owls. But instead of protecting forests and tackling the real drivers of decline: logging, climate change, and poor management. USFWS is scapegoating one species in a c