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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The concept of shooting birds is awful — nobody wants that. But none of the alternatives have worked, and at this late date no other option is viable. Extinction is a forever thing.”
Naturalist Karla Bloem responds to a federal plan to cull half a million invasive barred owls (Strix varia) in an effort to save the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) from being the first US owl species to go extinct.