There’s a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls. Lawmakers want the Trump administration to stop it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/theres-plan-kill-450-000-171624464.html

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  1. **From USA TODAY:**

    A group of 19 lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter last week, asking the federal government to halt a plan that aims to kill tens of thousands of barred owls along the West Coast.

    In a [letter](https://www.scribd.com/document/837989052/U-S-Department-of-the-Interior-Barred-Owl-Letter) addressed to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on March 7, lawmakers urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop all spending on its [Barred Owl Management Strategy](https://www.fws.gov/project/barred-owl-management). Introduced last year, the plan aims to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls, which are a threat to the region’s native spotted owl.

    The [letter](https://www.scribd.com/document/837989052/U-S-Department-of-the-Interior-Barred-Owl-Letter) claims that about $3,000 would be needed to kill one owl, resulting in more than $13.5 million over a 30-year period. The Barred Owl Management Strategy does not provide financial specifics.

  3. Once DOGE has finished their work on the US Fish and Wildlife Service this will be a moot issue. Dark times.

  4. Because they are outcompeting and putting native spotted owl populations at risk. Sooooooo, that is the “why” here.

  5. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to introduce more of the birds of prey that prey on them ? They probably moved caused their habitat was destroyed by humans . Use nature to fix nature

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