[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Owl burrows at Umatilla Chemical Depot (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New homes suit burrowing owls

Tri-City Herald (WA)
October 24, 2008

Burrowing owls at the Umatilla Chemical Depot have 18 new burrows to 
call home.

The owls have nested where there is little human intrusion inside the 
fences of the depot in badger dens, old pipes and other holes that were 
dug by small animals and then abandoned. They are listed as a "Bird of 
Conservation Concern" in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Region.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/360923.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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