To the Editor:

Kudos to Florida Senators Rick Scott and Ashley Moody for supporting efforts to stop a wasteful plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to shoot 450,000 North American barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. While the Senate defeated the amendment for now, Florida’s federal lawmakers were right to try to stop this unworkable billion-dollar government scheme to reduce competition between two species of owls — barred owls and spotted owls.

This is one more never-ending government program that Senator Scott and Moody, with Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, tried to nip in the bud. The government can pay contract shooters to shoot barred owls but it will make little difference. Keeping spotted owls and barred owls apart is like spitting in the ocean and trying to change the tides. 

Once the federal government starts trying to manage social relationships between native species in ecosystems, we usher in a new era of federal spending and federal engineering. Nature knows better than wildlife agency bureaucrats in D.C. trying to build a new budget item and to find job security at the expense of taxpayers. Again, thanks to Florida’s two U.S. Senators fighting this inhumane and insane government programs. 

Laurie Hood
Animal Wellness Action
Florida State Director

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