March 31, 2009 - Notice filed with U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Carpenters Industrial Council, et al. and Seattle Audubon Society, et al. v. Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior
Scientific Reviews of the Final Recovery Plan
Review received from The Society for Conservation Biology (North American Section) and The American Ornithologists’ Union
Review received from The Wildlife Society
2008 Final Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl
Since the Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan was completed in April 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been implementing the plan’s recommendations with our partners. A Klamath Province Work Group is determining the most effective habitat reserve design in southwest Oregon and northern California. A similar Eastside Dry Forest group is developing technical guidance to help land managers develop spotted owl habitat in disturbance-prone areas east of the Cascades Mountains. The Service is working with landowner partners in Oregon, Washington and California to further owl conservation efforts.
A Barred Owl Work Group is investigating the threat from barred owls, an extremely complex issue requiring immediate consideration. It is believed barred owls pose a serious threat to the recovery of the northern spotted owl. The Recovery Plan recommends barred owl removal experiments to assess the best path to recover the spotted owl (Recovery Action 29). Any control efforts would be conducted as scientifically designed removal experiments with abundant opportunity for public engagement. In addition to working on the biological issues, the Fish and Wildlife Service has formed a barred owl stakeholders group to work with an ethicist on the social issues surrounding potential barred owl removal.
The following items are available here for review and download:
News Release
Questions and Answers
Final Recovery Plan
Maps
GIS Layers
(Requires specialized mapping software such as the free ArcGIS Explorer.)
Responses to Comments
Image Available
Audio clip (MP3) of the Northern Spotted Owl Final Recovery Plan media telephone conference (10:00 a.m. PT -- May 16, 2008) (46:12 min - 5.28MB)
Link to Oregon Public Broadcasting's, news story - Fish and Wildlife Service Releases Final Spotted Owl Plan
Link to Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud feature, "Spotty Recovery" (52-minute talk show - 24MB)
2007 Draft Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl
The following items are available here for review or download:
Background on Recovery Planning for the Northern Spotted Owl
Status: listed
as threatened in 1990
Critical Habitat : designated
in 1992
Proposed Revised Critical Habitat: June 12, 2007
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) began the development
of a recovery plan for the northern spotted owl. The northern spotted
owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990,
and critical habitat was designated in 1992. In 1994, the Northwest
Forest Plan became the cornerstone for conserving the northern spotted
owl on 24.4 million acres of Federal land in Oregon, Washington and California.
 The
recent publication of numerous comprehensive reviews and reports on the
status of the northern spotted owl throughout its range present an opportunity
to incorporate the most current and best available scientific information
into a recovery plan for the species. The recovery plan addresses actions needed to recover the northern spotted owl throughout its range
and sets specific recovery criteria for delisting. It also addresses new threats that have arisen since the owl was listed, including
the range expansion of the barred
owl into traditional spotted owl habitat.
The Final Recovery Plan is largely based on existing materials. Examples
of these materials include the Northwest
Forest Plan , Sustainable
Ecosystems Institute's (SEI's) “Scientific Evaluation of the Status of
the Northern Spotted Owl” report , results of the Service's November
2004 Northern Spotted Owl 5-year Review , the final Northern
Spotted Owl Demographic Report , the Status
and Trends of Northern Spotted Owls Populations and Habitat (Northwest
Forest Plan 10-Year Report), and the 1992 Final Draft Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (Volume 1 [16 kb] and Volume II, Appendices [21 kb].
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