Hey, it’s a spotted owl sighting!
It has been two decades since the fate of a bashful bird that most people had never seen came to symbolize the bitter divide over whether to save or saw down the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest. Yet it was not until Thursday that the federal government offered its final plan to prevent the bird, the northern spotted owl, from going extinct.
After repeated revisions, constant court fights and shifting science, the Fish and Wildlife Service presented a plan that addresses a range of threats to the owl, including some that few imagined when it was listed as a threatened species in 1990.
The newer threats include climate change and the arrival of a formidable feathered competitor, the barred owl, in the soaring old-growth evergreens of Washington, Oregon and California where spotted owls nest and hunt.
Hey, adapt and evolve. I thought Liberals loved Evolution? Anyhow, one plan to help save the Spotted Owl? Shoot hundreds of barred owls……wait, what?
Elsewhere, someone is really excited about the prospect of creating a Cowgaroo. Because cows are destroying the Earth. Aren’t liberals usually against genetic modification?
And from the cleaning out the saved but never posted posts, cuddly koala’s face a danger from climate change and chlamydia. But, mostly chlamydia and urban blight…hey, liberals have been pushing cities as awesome as of late.
Also, the duck billed platypus may be in danger form globull warming. Sheesh, how did it survive through the much warmer periods over the last 7,000 years?
