"We say that the BC Cabinet must order the protection of all of the remaining spotted owl forest habitat within the owl's Canadian range if this endangered species is to have any hope of survival."

This statement is very misleading. In fact, most of the original post is hype.

FACT: The range of the Spotted Owls barely extends into Canada. A very small area at the extreme southwest corner of British Columbia is all. This is precisely the same bird found across the border in the US. Actually, the Spotted Owl can be found all throughout the mountains of Mexico as well as in most of the US west of the Rocky Mountains. That is tens of millions of acres. To say that this species will not survive if Canadian lands are not set aside for the is quite absurd.

As usual the poor Spotted Owl is being used as a pawn by various players.