Owls need holes for nest

It is not the cutting of the old-growth forests causing the reduction of the spotted owl. It is the loss of the nesting holes in those old trees. Unlike robins, owls nest in holes, and they must be specific for each species of owl. No nesting holes, no owls.

Years ago, I suggested to the forest people in California they put some of their unemployed loggers to work building owl nests specific for the spotted owl and attaching them to new-growth trees. The same has been done for certain parrots in South America with a similar problem. Artificial nests with the right size holes saved the parrot. Had the same been done then, or even now, the spotted owl would no longer be endangered. They didn't do it, and now the mills are closed and loggers are unemployed.

Bruce A. Daniel