Spotted Owl Cover Up
FFICIALS OF THE US Fish and Wildlife Service have been accused of secretly plotting to keep the northern spotted owl off a US endangered species list in order to appease the logging industry. If the spotted owl were declared endangered, 1.08 million hectares of national forest (27 percent of Forest Service lands in the Pacific Northwest) would be off-limits to timber moguls. In order to prevent this, FWS top brass orchestrated a cover up in order to protect the interests of the timber lobby. Researchers were ordered to "sanitize" a report which showed that efforts to save the
owl "would lead to the species’ extinction in the foreseeable future." Implicated in the cover up is the head of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 November 1989, Page 6
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127Spotted Owl Cover Up Forest and Bird, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 November 1989, Page 6
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