The northern spotted owl, to be blunt, is not a popular resident in east Linn County, reasons not all its fault.
The fluffy fowl, which weighs about a pound, has become the face of environmentalists’ campaign to shut down, or greatly reduce, logging in the Willamette National Forest and lots of other federal forestland across the West.
We’re not telling anyone anything they didn’t already know. But the spotted owl has hit the headlines again…