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Wildlife Group Seeks Help for California Spotted Owl
By Scott Smith, Associated Press
KSL News
Steep declines in owl populations and unchecked logging of mature/old forest and post-fire “snag” forest necessitate the listing of the California Spotted Owl under the Endangered Species Act.
Read MoreWildlife Groups Sue Feds Over California Logging
By Scott Smith, Associated Press
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Thursday against a federal agency, saying it aims to protect the California spotted owl living in the burned forests marked for logging after the third-largest wildfire in state history.
Read MoreCalifornia Spotted Owls Using Burned Sierra Forest Slated for Logging
By Chris Clarke
PBS SoCal
33 breeding pairs of the declining spotted owls have taken up residence in burned forest in the Rim Fire area, will these homeranges be destroyed by logging or protected?
Read MoreFire Suppression and Illegal Marijuana Cultivation Threaten Rare Pacific Fishers
By Christie Turner
High Country News
The Pacific fisher, a small, carnivorous forest-dwelling mammal, is a candidate for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act this year, and big wildfire could be to blame – or rather, the lack of it.
Read MoreStudy Challenges Views About Western Forest Fires
By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
Missoulian
Scientists using field notes from surveys first conducted by the government before the Civil War believe they’ve gained a better understanding of how Western wildfires behaved historically.
Read MoreProtection Sought for Rare Woodpecker
By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
The Spokesman-Review
Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that’s survived for millions of years is in danger of going extinct.
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