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Lawmakers from Right and Left Coalesce to Condemn Wasteful, Unworkable, and Inhumane
Barred Owl Killing Spree
Dear friend,
“In the spirit of fiscal responsibility and ethical conservation, we urge you to halt all spending on this plan to kill a native, range-expanding North American owl species,” wrote U.S. Representatives Troy Nehls, R-Texas, and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., along with 17 other members of Congress, in a letter sent yesterday to Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum.
These federal lawmakers, spanning the political spectrum from left to right, agree that shooting 450,000 barred owls, at a potential cost of $1.35 billion, is going to burn federal cash and cause unimaginable suffering. You can read their letter here [[link removed]] .
With budget cuts already coming to the Department of the Interior, it’s plain to see that the “the hoot and shoot,” as it’s locally known, is a bad idea whose days are numbered.
And rightly so.
From the get-go, we’ve said that these night-time owl shoots would invariably fall short of the goal of protecting spotted owls because the control area spans three states and covers a vast 24-million-acre patchwork of federal, state, tribal, and private lands.
The plan would require a small army of hunters to tromp through national parks and national forests to search out and shoot these nocturnal birds—producing mistaken identity kills of the spotted owls the plan is designed to protect. Moreover, the reality is that nothing can stop surviving barred owls in the surrounding area from flying in and replacing the owls purged from nesting areas. The plan would put the federal government on a never-ending owl-killing treadmill, producing no lasting benefits for spotted owls.
Our government never should have taken aim at a North American native owl species, protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, in the first place. Yes, barred owls are competing with spotted owls, Great horned owls, and other species. That’s what happens in nature. Species compete against each other every minute of every day.
By organizing this powerful letter from 10 Republicans and 9 Democrats, Animal Wellness Action sent a signal that this plan must go.
It’s a double dose of savings—tax dollars and innocent owls.
The American public doesn’t want its own government to conduct the world’s largest-ever raptor slaughter. It doesn’t want owl shooting in 14 units of the National Park Service in the Pacific Northwest. It doesn’t want the Endangered Species Act to be used as a sword to allow an assault on a North American native species. And it doesn’t want to spend a billion dollars of taxpayer money on a scheme that cannot work.
I am so grateful to Reps. Nehls and Kamlager-Dove for leading this fight. And I am also grateful to these other lawmakers for joining them and calling out the largest planned massacre of raptors ever: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Troy Carter, D-La., Scott Perry, R-Pa., Josh Harder, D-Calif., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Lance Gooden, R-Texas, Lois Frankel, D-Fla., Jeff Van Drew R-N.J., Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Deborah Ross, D-N.C., Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., Don Davis, D-N.C., Tony Wied, R-Wis., Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Summer Lee, D-Pa.
It’s great to see conservative, moderate, and liberal lawmakers condemn this assault on our native wildlife.
They understand that range expansion of barred owls and other birds is as natural as the sun rising or the clouds forming. That’s how ecological systems work, and it’s occurring every day, with hundreds of species.
Will you donate now to help us continue to fight this plan and make sure the forests of the Pacific Northwest don’t turn into killing forests for innocent owls? [[link removed]]

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If the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service goes down this road of managing social interactions between animals, where will it end? There are more than 1,300 federally listed threatened and endangered species, and you can be sure there are thousands of other species competing with them every day in our nation.
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We cannot victimize animals for adapting to human disturbances of the environment. Smarter, more strategic, less violent uses of the agency’s limited time and resources are what’s needed.
For all animals,
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