How to Use spotted owl in a Sentence
spotted owl
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To measure those costs, the study’s authors used the endangered Mexican spotted owl as a proxy.
—Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2021
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Gillette recently led a project to protect trees that serve as nesting sites for the endangered spotted owl.
—Daniel McGlynn, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2012
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Everybody grab a pair of breeding hedgehogs or spotted owls or Velociraptors and head up the road to get in line.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2019
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For example, the Mexican spotted owl relies on mixed-conifer forests to live.
—Erin Stone, azcentral, 22 June 2020
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Northern spotted owl in old growth forest managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
—CBS News, 5 July 2022
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There’s spotted owl habitat across this entire ownership.
—oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
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And a 1992 compromise over logging in Pacific Northwest woods that was the habitat of endangered spotted owls blocked litigation for and against timber mining in the region.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
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But the fire footprint includes designated critical habitat for two imperiled species, the Mexican spotted owl and the northern goshawk.
—Erin Stone, azcentral, 22 June 2020
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Still, anyone who has followed the fierce battles over endangered species in the last few decades (think snail darter and spotted owl, for example) likely knows about the blowback to environmentalism that resulted.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
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The spotted owl wars of the 1990s, when environmentalists and loggers battled over the fate of old-growth forests, also left their mark not only on forests but on rural Northern California’s economy.
—AZCentral.com, 25 Nov. 2020
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Located in northern California along the iconic Lost Coast, the area houses several endangered species, such as steelhead trout, coho salmon, spotted owl, and yellow-legged frog.
—Priya Shukla, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
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The work, namely noise from the helicopter, also can't interrupt the breeding season for the Mexican spotted owl, the southwestern willow flycatcher and other endangered species.
—CBS News, 17 Feb. 2023
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Replanting is crucial not only to resurrect the forest for its own sake but also for creating climate-resilient habitat for the endangered Jemez Mountains salamander, the Mexican spotted owl, Abert’s squirrel and other species.
—April Reese, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2021
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Creating new trails would also add environmental impacts, such as damaging the Mexican spotted owl habitat.
—The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
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The agreement also establishes the Mexican spotted owl leadership forum.
—Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
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The bitter struggle over clear-cutting and spotted owl habitat in Oregon, Washington, and California resulted in tight logging restrictions on federal lands as popular sentiment shifted toward saving old-growth forest.
—Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2021
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