The province has failed to produce the habitat plan for spotted owls it promised 14 years ago, while a costly program to release captive-bred owls into the wild has come to naught.
“If we left them all winter, we would have fuel loaded on the ground,” firefighter Jon Boe said as he eyed dozens of tepee-shaped piles. “That’s something we don’t want.”
As a UN report finds nature declining globally at unprecedented rates, Canadian groups call for plan to protect old-growth forest habitat for owls reduced from 1,000 to fewer than five in the wild.
