Let's Not Admit We Were Wrong About The Spotted Owl, Let's Shoot Barred Owls Instead

It's always the detail mentioned 'below the fold' which bears reading.

From The Washington Post:

WASHINGTON — To save the imperiled spotted owl, the Obama administration is moving forward with a controversial plan to shoot barred owls, a rival bird that has shoved its smaller cousin aside.
The plan is the latest federal attempt to protect the northern spotted owl, the passive, one-pound bird that sparked an epic battle over logging in the Pacific Northwest two decades ago.

The government set aside millions of acres of forest to protect the owl, but the bird’s population continues to decline — a 40 percent slide in 25 years.
 
A plan announced Tuesday would designate habitat considered critical for the bird’s survival, while allowing logging to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire and to create jobs. Habitat loss and competition from barred owls are the biggest threats to the spotted owl.

Millions of acres closed to logging--an entire industry and way of life nearly destroyed. Small towns gutted by the job losses imposed by the federal government-in both Dem and GOP administrations.

So, one would ask, given this abject failure, why wouldn't sane people just say, 'Ya'll, this was a bad idea that produced terrible consequences. We wuz wrong, and we're gunna stop doin' this bad stuff to people.'

No, no, no, no, no, no......

The Greenies need the Spotted Owl, 'cuz it's an Endangered Species (now more than ever!). It provides the pretext that allows them to shut down and gut entire swaths of the American economy and way of life. Like the Snail Darter that forced the abandonment of a dam project in Tennessee some years ago--a blind, cave-dwelling salamander that no human eye ever sees, because it lives in caves, out of sight, in the dark. The country could use that electricity, and the Tennessee Valley could have used that flood control in Spring 2010, when hundreds of people died. That's really OK in the minds of the Greenies--they were just LittlePeople, not Princeton graduates like us. We'll be fine in any case, and those helpless little critters need US to protect THEM!

Even if it kills them, too.

The Endangered Species Act is the legal basis for a massive scam by the Left, and it is time to repeal this sucker, and send all those Greenies off to find honest work.

Like logging, or farming.