Lethal owl study seeks to determine impacts
b'February 18, 2022 \\u2014 As conditions in the ecosystem change, environmentalists and land managers grapple with increasingly difficult questions about what it means to be stewards of the forest and its inhabitants. A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is engaged in a study involving the lethal removal of barred owls, which have been out-competing the iconic and endangered northern spotted owls. Barred owls originated in the eastern United States, and they\\u2019re larger and much more aggressive than the local birds. They\\u2019ve replaced over a dozen pairs of spotted owls in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest, leaving only one known pair.'