Spotted Owl Protection

In the nineteen-nineties, environmental activists chained themselves to trees and loggers held mock funerals for the timber industry.

Yet today much unheard about the reasons for their protests.

This weekend marks twenty years since the northern spotted owl was listed as a threatened species, and Northwest Forest Management changed forever as a result.

KBOO reporter Kylie Gilchrist has the story, with comments from the National Center for Conservation Science and Policy’s chief scientist Dominick DellaSala and Oregon Wild’s conservation coordinator Doug Heiken.