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More‐Comprehensive Recovery Actions for Northern Spotted Owls in Dry Forests: Reply to Spies et al.
Author(s) -
HANSON CHAD T.,
ODION DENNIS C.,
DELLASALA DOMINICK A.,
BAKER WILLIAM L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
conservation biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.2
H-Index - 222
eISSN - 1523-1739
pISSN - 0888-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01415.x
Subject(s) - library science , geography , environmental ethics , ecology , archaeology , biology , philosophy , computer science
), but the re-covery plan was recently withdrawn by the U.S. Fish& Wildlife Service due to scientific inadequacy citedin peer reviews. Spies et al.’s concerns do not changethe findings in Hanson et al. (2009). Spies et al.’s “Im-plications for Conservation Planning” section, like therecovery plan, is based on uncorrected anecdotal andincomplete fire data, omits old-forest recruitment, andincorrectly assumes high-severity fire represents habitatloss for the NSO. The current low fire risk does not war-rant the fuel-treatment focus of the recovery plan or ofSpiesetal.Wesuggestmore-comprehensiverecoveryac-tions for NSO in dry forests.