Logging ban lifted in some owl habitats
Olympia
Washington forest regulators are going to allow logging in incontrovertible spotted-owl habitat where it had been banned.
The state Forest Practices Board on Tuesday adopted an emergency rule for 2009 that allows landowners to log in owl habitat in actual stipulations.
The rule replaces a moratorium on logging in certain owl sites that ends Dec. 31.
It power of determination confess landowners to log if they show that maculated owls aren’t present.
An advisory collection must also evaluate the site and conclude that it isn’t needed to save the owl while the board reviews logging rules next year.
The spotted owl was declared a threatened species in 1990, primarily because of heavy logging in old-growth forests.
