#spottedowl — Public Fediverse posts

@BrianJopek
Oh dear!

I see the whole "#SpottedOwl" Right-Wing hysteria from the 1990's coming back over this.

(Most) #Republicans are devoid of #empathy (while extolling #Jesus... a brown-skinned Middle Eastern man who tells them to "welcome the stranger" & "care for the poor"), mocking inconveniencing people for the benefit of "some stupid birds".

Poppy #Bush even made the "controversy" part of his campaign. 😒
#SnowyOwl #Chicago #HistoryRepeats

The #Trump admin's announcement answers calls for revisions to the #EndangeredSpecies Act from #Republicans in #Congress & industries including #oil & #gas, #mining & #agriculture. Critics argue the landmark 1973 #EnvironmentalLaw has been wielded too broadly….

But environmentalists warned the changes could cause yearslong delays in efforts to save species such as the #monarch butterfly, Florida #manatee, California #SpottedOwl & North American #wolverine.

#Trump #law #ClimateCrisis #wildlife

A Multi-Level, Multi-Scale Comparison Of Lidar- And LANDSAT-Based Habitat Selection Models Of Mexican Spotted Owls In A Post-Fire Landscape
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103168 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Habitat #suitability #Megafire #Scaling #Habitatsuitability #selection #model #modeling #framework #Strixoccidentalis #Wildfire #bushfire #remotesening #LIDAR #elevation #ecosystem #LANDSAT #comparasion #mexican #spottedowl #avian #postfire #landscape #vegetation #ecosystem #damage #risk #hazard #earthobservation #scaling #scale #multifactor #homerange #microhabitat #ecology #recovery #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #modelperformance #reliability #accuracy #precision #forest #integration #conservation #landscape #fireaffected #spatialdisagreement

An internal government document reveals how B.C., citing ‘significant impacts’ on forest sector jobs and provincial revenue, aims to prevent Ottawa from stepping in to save a species on the cusp of #Canadian #extinction

https://thenarwhal.ca/spotted-owl-emergency-order-documents

#EmergencyOrder #BCNDP #NewDeathParty #CorporateGreed #SpeciesAtRisk #WildlifeAtRisk #ecology #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #SpottedOwl #MassExtinction #birders #InternalDocuments