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To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million (500,000) of another owl species
To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million of another owl species : NPR
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To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their cousins.
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The notion of killing one bird species to save another has divided wildlife advocates and conservationists. It's reminiscent of past government efforts to save West Coast salmon by killing sea lions and cormorants that prey on the fish, and to preserve warblers by killing cowbirds that lay eggs in warbler nests.
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“The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry”
comes from the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns:
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