91.   The size limit protects the spotted owl, which makes its home in the larger trees.

92.   The villain was the northern spotted owl, an endangered bird fond of the same ancient national forests desired by loggers.

93.   There are three subspecies of spotted owls.

94.   The wood shortage, they say, was caused not by the spotted owl injuction but by Forest Service mismanagement.

95.   They claimed that the repeatedly rewritten plan still fails to avert the growing decline of the northern spotted owl population and allows too much risk to several other species.

96.   They maintained that they already were moving toward protecting the spotted owls and other wildlife while conducting operations to reduce the danger of fire.

97.   They say Gore helped broker a deal intended to save the spotted owl that allowed some tracts of virgin timber to be felled.

98.   Think of the northern spotted owl.

99.   This case, Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon, arose from the spotted owl controversy.

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