Canada's Spotted Owl

This is a 1996 Wilderness Committee education report about Canada's endangered population of Northern spotted owls. It is estimated that there are only about 3,600 pairs of Northern spotted owls left in the world. They live in the oldgrowth forests along the west coast of North America, from California to southwestern B.C. In the U.S.A., where the spotted owl is listed as endangered and an "indicator species" for the overall health of the forest ecosystem, lengthy lawsuits and bitter public campaigns have ensued over how much spotted owl habitat to protect.