User Profile: MetaphysicalJustice

MetaphysicalJustice

Member Since: July 06, 2012

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  • @flypantherfan…signed your petion. Thanks for taking a lead. For all those here that are unafraid to use your own info when signing into whitehouse.gov go do it now and sign the petition. For those of us that are more wary, use a fake account! Not difficult to do. Use your imagination!

  • Wildlife officials propose killing barred owls, which are taking territory from spotted owls.
    Northern spotted owls earned a place on the endangered species list due to habitat loss from logging and fire, but their biggest nemesis now is an East Coast cousin.

    Larger, more aggressive, more adaptable barred owls moved West in the 1960s, found food and shelter to their liking and have since displaced spotted owls throughout much of British Columbia to Northern California. Spotted owls declined 40 percent over the past 25 years, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says they may go extinct in some parts of their range if something isn’t done about barred owls.

    So it means to kill them. Perhaps hundreds of barred owls will be shot — “removed” is the gentler agency word for it — during a 3- to 10-year experiment in tightly defined areas of Northwest forests. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the government “can’t ignore the mounting evidence that competition from barred owls is a major factor in the spotted owl’s decline.”

    The fate of spotted owls has been at the heart of the “timber wars” since they were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990. Killing one species to benefit another, however, is a drastic action that troubles scientists and activists on either side.

    A draft environmental impact statement to be released soon includes options for capturing barred owls instead of killing them.

    Google “spotted owl barred

  • Another example of negative consequence resulting from a decision based not on True Reality. This is pervasive in our society today and the root of our problems. Can you say Metaphysical Justice?

  • We need a NEW COMPROMISE. One that REDUCES the size of government. It is time we only pass or sign legislation that accomplishes this. Stand up and defend a new direction!