Dossier
spotted owls
Coverage of spotted owls in the Nexus archive.
- EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining
The Trump administration repealed a key provision of the Endangered Species Act that protected habitats of endangered species from development, logging, and mining. The rule change removes a 50-year-old definition of 'harm' that included habitat protection, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in 1995 to safeguard old-growth forests for spotted owls.