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Title: Spotted Owl
Location and Date: Humboldt County, California, 2008
Gallery Intro: California coastal redwoods are the tallest trees on earth. Some are close to four hundred feet tall and two thousand years old. In one hundred years we cut down 95 percent of the greatest forest on earth and left a legacy of fouled streams and scarred land. When Wall Street investors got involved, almost all the remaining “old growth” was cut. The local economy was destroyed by this greed. With nothing left the war has ended, but tensions between “tree huggers” and “tree cutters” remains.
Caption: The northern spotted owl is an endangered species that inhabits the redwood trees. The owl, whose life might span ten years, is protecting these 1,500-year-old trees.
Web Intro:
California coastal redwoods are the tallest trees on earth. Some are close to 400 feet tall and 2000 years old. In 100 years we cut down 95% of the greatest forest on earth with a legacy of fouled streams and scarred land. When Wall Street got involved the remaining “old growth” was cut. The local economy was destroyed by this greed. With nothing left the war has ended, but tensions between “tree huggers” and “tree cutters” remains.
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1) Spotted Owl, Humboldt County, 2008.
We have used an endangered owl whose life might span 10 years to protect 1500 year old trees.
Exhibit Caption: A tagged northern spotted owl swoops toward a researcher’s lure in a young redwood forest.
NGM: A tagged northern spotted owl swoops toward a researcher’s lure in a young redwood forest.
SPI: A tagged northern spotted owl in a redwood forest.
Field Caption:
Lowell Diller chief Biologist for GDR helps us photograph Northern Spotted Owls in Flight. Spotted Owls brought the environmental movement to the forests of Northern california, Oregon and Washington. Timber companys had to understand the spotted owls needs in order to be able to harvest. Today 20 years later we have found that spotted