1.   Employees grumbled Monday about logging restrictions in the national forests to protect the threatened northern spotted owl.

2.   He was putting together a final operating plan when the area was found to be within the habitat of the threatened Mexican spotted owl.

3.   Most of the proposed area is federal land where logging has already been barred to protect the threatened northern spotted owl.

4.   That plan is intended to preserve habitat of the threatened northern spotted owl and other species while allowing some logging to continue.

5.   The case centered on much-publicized efforts by the Interior Department to restrict logging in Oregon that would damage the forest home of the threatened spotted owl.

6.   The plan protected the threatened owl by barring logging on habitat on federally and privately owned land.

7.   Those laws have been used to place national forest habitats of the threatened northern spotted owl off limits to logging.