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Originally Posted by raveneye
The fact that the population was decimated by rampant clearcut logging and farmland clearing is not disputed by any knowledgeable biologist. The only people currently disputing it to my knowledge (in the public realm) are conservative talk show hosts. They are not very good sources for scientific information and judgement.
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The "fact" that the bird was extinct was also not disputed by any "knowledgable biologist....again it's not a fact, it's an opinion. People can call this a fact all they want, but that doesn't make it a fact. It may be the opinion of several biologists (many of whom swore up and down that old growth logging was the biggest danger to the spotted owl, we find out now that the biggest danger is another owl) that "rampant" logging "decimated"the population.