21.   But a pro-choice EPA administrator can only protect the reproductive rights of spotted owls.

22.   But environmentalists say that, like its cousin the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest, the Mexican owl signifies that a forest is in good ecological health.

23.   But salmon have now become its main focus, not least because unlike spotted owls, they enlist broad support in these parts.

24.   But the Forest Service, having suffered from three years of injunctions and delays to protect the northern spotted owl, appears to prefer the slow, careful route.

25.   But the mussels, or freshwater mollusks, may be poised to move into the same league with the spotted owl.

26.   But there is no strong voice to protect the snail darters and the spotted owls of this country.

27.   But the primary driver has been reductions in supply caused by environmental concerns such as the spotted owl.

28.   Coos County, primary home for the spotted owl, already is getting federal aid to cope with unemployment stemming from mill closures and logging cutbacks.

29.   Democracies are unlikely to come up with a one-size-fits-all formula for regulating spotted owls and tailpipe gases.

30.   Did the loggers win, or was it the spotted owl?