For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Spotted Owl

| December 8, 2008

    The Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) is an indicator species for old grow forest in the Pacific Northwest.  There were titanic legal battles fought back in the eighties and nineties   to preserve a  modicum of the old growth forest and thus preserve this species of owl.  It requires large tracts of old growth forest which [...]