Stop the Killing of Spotted Owls

Feds Want to Give Timber Company a License to Kill Endangered Species

Were you or I to cut down a Northern Spotted Owl nest tree or poison an endangered Klamath River Coho Salmon, we would be held accountable for violating the Endangered Species Act.

But some timber companies and their enablers think they are above the law.

Currently the Fruit Growers Supply timber company, based in the small Northern California town of Hilt, is proposing to "take" (i.e. kill) endangered Spotted Owl and Coho salmon with the blessing of the very federal agencies in charge of enforcing the Endangered Species Act.

Through its proposed "Habitat Conservation Plan" Fruit Growers Supply timber company would be issued so-called "incidental take permits" allowing the company to kill endangered species in the course of its logging activities.

Please take a moment to send this quick note to the feds asking them protect, rather than kill, endangered species. Please feel free to customize your message.

Subject:

Your Letter:

Re: Fruit Growers Supply Company's Habitat Conservation Plan

Dear federal biologist,

I care deeply about the at-risk Northern Spotted Owl and Coho Salmon populations that are tenaciously clinging to life in forests and watersheds of the Klamath Province.

Please do not authorize a "Habitat Conservation Plan" for the Fruit Growers Supply Timber Company that allows for the "take" of these species through damage to their habitat.

I am concerned that the proposed plan allows the timber company to log existing suitable occupied habitat in exchange for the potential creation of hypothetical future habitat elsewhere. I am worried that the plan will lock in a "no surprises policy" that will prohibit adaptive management. I am worried that in the future the timber company may not have the financial means to follow through with its obligations. And I am opposed to the otherwise illegal "take" (killing) of endangered species that would be authorized by the incidental take permits.

It is extremely important to me that future generations have live in a world that includes Spotted Owls and Coho Salmon. I respectfully urge the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to work to retain these species by protecting them from the economic preference of Fruit Growers Supply Company to "take" them in order to facilitate accelerated logging activities.

Sincerely,

FGS HCP

NOAA

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