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Short Documentary on their land

Day seventeen

I'd like to thank the group of teens who did what they could for the environment. They got a group of friends together and went to plant trees where there had been excessive logging. THANK YOU GUYS! Your doing a great thing! I hope other people follow in your small ecological footprints and do a good think!

These Tree's arn't small and to show their size here is a picture. Old growth trees can be over 100's of years old and can take more than 10 peoples arms around it to make a full circle!

So you can do more at home

The Wilderness Committee is an amazing organization that has been doing all they can for these owls. Visit their sight!

Wilderness Committee

Day Fifteen

We had a problem today. A young woman fell while climbing the latter up to our houses. Thankfully it was a food day and the helicopter took her to the city to get looked at. She broke her arm. But it is dangerous in the forest. All volunteers must be warned. If you are unadventurous then please do something else in your community, like the 11 year old girl in Vancouver who won the Action For Nature award for her work with the spotted owls 4 years ago.
Action For Nautre
;)

Day Twelve

Today a representative from the logging company came to try to talk us into leaving. We didn't budge.

How could we?

Our tree house meeting room

Day seven

We have surpassed our expectations. We have 36 people in trees. We have a small community. We have built paths in the trees between the houses. A very helpful, wealthy volunteer has willingly agreed to use his helicopter to bring us food once a week. The logging company sent us a letter back requesting us to stop protesting. We had a letter-burning ceremony. Everything is going better than plan.

Day four

Living in trees is difficult. The food we eat is whatever we can get. Today we spray-painted all of our trees with giant crying owls. One person in our group also sent a letter to a logging manager explaining what was going on. We have around 20 tree houses by now and each has around 2-3 people. Our cause is getting lots of public recognition and we have more volunteers who are living to stay in the trees with us. Our hope is that by the end of the week we will have 30 “tree houses”

Day three

Since the night before we had gotten to sleep very late, we slept in till 11. When we all woke up, we started our project. We hiked towards an area of the forest that was set to be cut down, as well as being an area where a pair of spotted owls had been seen. We began to build. Our plan was to make “tree houses” in some of the biggest trees so they can’t cut them down. We will live in them as long as it takes. We made pulley systems and hauled the building supplies up into the trees. By night fall, we had houses in the trees.

Day two

Today we started our day by driving up into the forest.  We parked our van and began the tenuous hike. We went to a major logging camp on the northern shore.  By the time we got up there, night had descended on the unending wilderness. We snuck as stealthily as the wings of the majestic birds we protest. With long nails we punctured the wheels of the forest killers. The large trucks wheezed as air escaped from under them. As silently as we came, we left the camp back into the safety of the dark forest. We hiked down several miles into the forest and set up camp.

Mountain View Wildlife Conservation Center

Mountain View Website

The Mountain View Wildlife Conservation Center is the home to two northern spotted owls and their chick. The male, Sky, is around 3 years old and was rescued over 1 year ago. The owls can't be viewed on a tour because they wasnt them to be completely self dependant and to have no contact with the human world so they can be reliesed back into the wild. The governement set up theis program to keep the logging companies and the protesters happy. The question asked by many who know about the topic is if all the forests in BC are clear cut then where will these animals be released? There is no answer to this question.

Owl Call

Spotted owl bird call
(listen hard, the call is pritty soft)

Clear cutting

(Clear cutting leads to even aged stands making it prone to the MPB)

MPB is a type of beadle that kills pine trees.

Baby owls

These are two baby owls. These are very rare especially today!

Logging of BC's old growth forest

Hundreds and hundreds of trees are cut down a day for everything as kitchen floors to the paper students use to take notes! The concept of supply and demand is very prominent here. The less we, as a community, use wood-based products, the less they will be supplied. We can save plants, animals and lives.

Day one

Today we had a protest in the park against old growth logging of British Columbians forests. We had a great turn out and i think we made a great impact.  It was wonderful! many people from the street were taking a walk in the park and, hearing what we have to say, picked up a sign and joined in!

I'd like to thank all the people who came and helped! We got allot of donations, over 2 thousand dollars in one afternoon. Please continue helping! We are doing an amazing thing!

Spotted Owl Range Map

 Their land used to stretch way bigger. The logging of BC's Old Growth forests have wiped out most of their population and habitat. Spotted owls are also indicator species. Indicator species: animal or plant species that can be used to infer conditions in a particular habitat.

General facts

Fast Facts Height: About 18 inches.
Length: About 18 inches (wingspan of around 48 inches).
Weight: 1-2 lbs; males smaller than females.
Lifespan: May live as long as 10 years in the wild and 15-20 years in captivity.

Video

Northern spotted owls are very rare and even rarer to see. To get a movie of a wild one is almost impossible. This is an insainly rare video!

Introduction

*This blog is for an english project, only part of this blog is true*

"In Canada, the endangered northern spotted owl is found only in the southwestern corner of British Columbia. This handsome medium sized owl, with its unusual dark-brown eyes, relies on old-growth forests to roost, nest and forage.
Due to ongoing logging of in the ancient forests of southwestern British Columbia scientists estimate that just 8 pairs of owls now remain. The historic population of spotted owls in Canada is estimated to have been 500 pairs.
Because of the declining numbers of the northern spotted owls, the Wilderness Committee is asking for:

• The recovery of spotted owls to 250 birds as recommended by the Spotted Owl Recovery Team.
• The protection of all occupied and unoccupied intact spotted owl habitat.
• The recovery of fragmented spotted owl habitat.
• A total of enough protected habitat to accommodate 250 spotted owls. " 

Wilderness Committee