Audubon Society Sues Over Spotted Owl

[Eugene]

Audubon Society Sues Over Spotted Owl

By GENE JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 8, 2005; 12:41 AM

SEATTLE -- The northern spotted owl was listed as an endangered
species in 1990 because of logging in the Northwest, but federal
officials have yet to come up with a plan to protect it, according
to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.

"They've been telling us for years they were going to do it," said
Alex Morgan, conservation director at the Seattle Audubon Society,
which joined the Kittitas Audubon Society in filing the suit. "This
is 15 years late."

Joan Jewett, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
acknowledged that federal officials never completed a final recovery
plan for the Northern spotted owl. She said the agency recently agreed
that it would complete such a plan _ hopefully within 18 months.

Morgan said the Audubon Society chapters would be satisfied if they
could get that in writing.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110800040.html

[blindpig]

1. Stalling.

Waiting for Pombo's evil revision to pass. Waiting for Judge Roberts to throw out the whole ESA.

The next Democratic president is going to have some serious housecleaning to do in upper and perhaps middle management at Interior. Just hope the good folks in the front lines can hold on until sanity is returned.