How to Use spotted owl in a Sentence
spotted owl
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Ferns, lichen and moss grow in them, and salamanders, spotted owls and bats reside in the trees.
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Jim Robbins Ian C. Bates,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2023
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For example, the Mexican spotted owl relies on mixed-conifer forests to live.
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Erin Stone,
azcentral,
22 June 2020
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To measure those costs, the study’s authors used the endangered Mexican spotted owl as a proxy.
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Zayna Syed,
The Arizona Republic,
30 Nov. 2021
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Everybody grab a pair of breeding hedgehogs or spotted owls or Velociraptors and head up the road to get in line.
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Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
7 June 2019
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Creating new trails would also add environmental impacts, such as damaging the Mexican spotted owl habitat.
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The Arizona Republic,
22 June 2023
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The bitter struggle over clear-cutting and spotted owl habitat in Oregon, Washington, and California resulted in tight logging restrictions on federal lands as popular sentiment shifted toward saving old-growth forest.
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Martin Kuz,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Oct. 2021
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Project partners said the work could increase downstream water availability by more than 264 million gallons annually while helping protect vulnerable wildlife species, including the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog and California spotted owl.
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Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
7 May 2026
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The Fresno Forestry Sciences Laboratory, for example, focused its research ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada mountains, looking at strategies to help sustain species like the California spotted owls, fishers and yellow-legged frogs.
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Kate Talerico,
San Francisco Chronicle,
4 Apr. 2026
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