Spotted owls are on the decline despite two decades of work to bring them back.

尽管在过去二十年里，人们为了保护斑点猫头鹰做了很多工作，但斑点猫头鹰的数量仍然处于下降趋势。

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The giant evergreens of the West have long been proclaimed essential, whether the cause was saving salmon and spotted owls or small towns and their sawmills.

这些西部大型常青植物的重要性已经被强调很久了，不管原因是不是拯救大马哈鱼、斑点猫头鹰或者一些小镇和它们的锯木机。

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Barred owls take over spotted owl territory and in some cases even attack them.

横斑猫头鹰占据了斑点猫头鹰的领地，并且横斑猫头鹰在一些情况下还攻击斑点猫头鹰。

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There are cowboys and debutantes, Northern spotted owls and bison, cityscapes and pueblos, mesas and dams, gathering storms and controlled burns.

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If the land coveted by the EPA is dry, a different statute is cited, and different birds (spotted owls) are sent in as an occupation force.

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Logging has increased by 60% in the state since the 1980s, when the timber industry moved its operations over from the Pacific north-west in order to avoid continual warfare over old-growth forests and spotted owls.

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