Barred Owls Being Shot By Feds To Save Spotted Owls 🦉🤯

They are very similar looking. The barred owls came from Canada!

Who Dat?

I did not realize that wild life managers in the Pacific Northwest are out in the woods, shooting barred owls to save spotted owls.  Then again: "Before he trained to shoot his first barred owl, he had never fired a gun."  It is good to learn a skill--why not go shoot nutria or some other noxious invasive species? Apparently we can't have invasive Canadian owls coming south along the border. 

That the barred owls are hybridizing with the spotted owls raises another issue: they can't be that different as species. Which just goes to show: Love will find a way. 

AoSHQ: Morning Report 10.15.19.

The Coming Destruction of the Pacific Northwest

Ghost Forest: Coastal Washington (stumps don't lie)

Michael Totten (an Oregon raised son) addresses the big earthquake that will eventually come. It is not if, only when. It will be a reckoning. It will be utter devastation on the cities of the Pacific Northwest. It will be a logistical and financial disaster for the United States and Canada.  

EBL: The Big One: British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon all facing a reckoning, Anchorage Earthquake (just a baby in comparison), Mexico City, New Zealand, Italy (all nothing compared to what is coming).   

h/t: AoSHQ: Morning Report 03.11.19

TOM: In The Mailbox 03.11.19

Women eating salmon Rule 5

Both Chip Ahoy and I noted the return of millions of salmon to Pacific Northwest rivers due to the work of one man who promoted adding iron sulfate to the ocean.  So in the Rule 5 spirit, here are some images of beautiful women eating salmon.  

Eat Me

Here are some women cleaning salmon…

Update:
Jonah Goldberg: The natural world is anything but natural…

Breastaurants: Northwest Style Twin Peaks and Rule 5

Okay, basically get rid of the Scottish, go with Northwest* inspired chic. and you have Twin Peaks.  It is not Scottish, but it is not crap either.  Definitely worth a Rule 5 post.

*Definitely not the Northwest style Professor Erik Loomis likes.

Order the Desert