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...The folks down at the Harvard College Fund are beginning to regret choosing outgoing co-chair Tabitha G. Filney ’02 to lead the Senior Gift Committee. “I began to get worried after she told me she was ‘trizzashed,�...
Over the past few summers I have seen ten to twenty Northern Spotted Owls while working in the field with the Olympic National Park owl crew in Washington State. Today, a chance sighting of a spotted owl in the wilds is a rare and miraculous event; the population has dwindled...
Fortunately, Park Service biologists are still tracking the remaining populations in the park; their Canadian counterparts have resorted to managing the handful of remaining birds. Last fall, scientists in British Columbia moved what is believed to be the only surviving Canadian chick from this year’s brood into...
Due to civilization’s disruptive development, extinction is now a regular part of life on earth: scientists estimate that between 35 and 150 species die off every day. The case of the spotted owl, however, is politically noteworthy, as the fate of the owls has become something of...
This era may be coming to an end, as the species loses the territory it needs. Symbolically, the disappearance of the spotted owl may be a demoralizing blow to those interested in preserving some of our last wild places. Losing a species is hard, especially one that is the mascot...