Northern Spotted Owl Lawsuit Settles

July 08, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

So reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and AP.  The lawsuit concerned a challenge to timber harvesting that allegedly had adverse and unmitigated impacts against the Northern Spotted Owl, a threatened species under the ESA.  The settlement, as described in the article, seems generally consistent with the cooperative conservation principles that have gained currency.