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A group of animal advocacy organizations are calling on the federal government to stop a proposal that aims to save spotted owl populations by killing invasive barred owls in the west coast.
Barred owls from the east have moved in and taken over spotted owl habitat in the western forests of Oregon, and are now pushing spotted owls closer and closer to extinction.
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Barred owls began invading spotted owl territory in British Columbia in 1959, then expanded into Washington and Oregon around 1970, reaching California by the mid-1970s.
The other California spotted owl population, which lives in Sierra Nevada forests in California and western Nevada, would be classified as threatened, the agency said.
An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years.
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An invasion by barred owls, a more aggressive and adaptable raptor, has prompted a federal plan to ease the restrictions against killing them.
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The other California spotted owl population, which lives in Sierra Nevada forests in California and western Nevada, would be classified as threatened, the agency said.