spotted owl

基本解釋

LL: Do you remember a few years ago some tree huggers in the northwestern United States wanted to protect the forest home of the Spotted Owl?
對(duì)，幾年前，美國(guó)西北部一些環(huán)保人士為了保護(hù)貓頭鷹的棲息地，阻止木材公司伐木而用鐵鏈子把自己捆在樹上。
The designation of much of Oregon as a critical habitat for the northern spotted owl in 1992 led to restrictions on logging and the loss of some 10,000 jobs.
1992年，俄勒岡州大部分地區(qū)變成了北花斑貓頭鷹的“生存棲地” 指定區(qū)，限制了伐木業(yè)，失去了近1萬個(gè)工作機(jī)會(huì)。
In a dense forest near Muir Woods, just north of San Francisco, National Park Service ecologist Bill Merkle plays a recording of a spotted owl in hopes of hearing from a real one.
在鄰近舊金山北部的穆爾樹林的森林，國(guó)家公園管理局的生物學(xué)家Bill Merkle不斷播放斑點(diǎn)貓頭鷹的叫聲的錄音，以期望得到一只野生斑點(diǎn)貓頭鷹的回答。

The group engaged in a very public fight to save the spotted owl at the expense of timber jobs.
FORBES: Seeing red over green
The notorious spotted owl, which has caused several presidents grief, does not live only in old-growth forests, as was once thought.
ECONOMIST: Wild-life conservation: Landscape or animals first? The