{"id":830241,"date":"2026-08-29T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:04:16","slug":"the-econews-report-barred-owl-removal-working-as-intended-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830241\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ECONEWS REPORT: Barred Owl Removal, Working as Intended | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Barred
\nowl removal is moving forward in California and new data suggests
\nthat removals\u00a0are working as intended: freeing up northern
\nspotted owl habitat that was lost to barred owl invasion.\u00a0A
\nnew peer-reviewed\u00a0paper
\nin the journal\u00a0<\/a>Biological
\nConservation<\/a>\u00a0used
\nGPS locators on 56 barred owls in Northern California\u00a0confirms
\nthat barred owls preferentially choose the same older forests that
\nspotted owls require.\u00a0Slightly larger than spotted owls, barred
\nowls are able to bully spotted owls from their nest sites. Now,
\nbarred owls are pervasive across the landscape and\u00a0the
\nconsequences are dire: just this week,\u00a0another
\nnew paper\u00a0<\/a>described
\nthe spotted owl as \u201cfunctionally extinct\u201d across much of
\nits range in Washington and Oregon. But through sustained\u00a0removal
\nefforts, wildlife managers are able to recover substantial amounts of
\nspotted owl habitat, improving the prospects that your kids or
\ngrandkids can enjoy a world with northern spotted owls.\u00a0<\/p>\n


\nVitek
\nJirinec\u00a0of the\u00a0Integral
\nEcology Research Center<\/a>\u00a0join
\nthe program to discuss.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ### Barred owl removal is moving forward in California and new data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-830241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}