11.   The restrictions were imposed to protect the habitat of the Mexican spotted owl and the goshawk.

12.   The senator also used the forest-health argument to support his idea of exempting the Mexican spotted owl from one portion of the Endangered Species Act.

13.   To rural groups suspicious that the environmental movement is a plot to destroy their livelihoods, he jokes about personally shooting an endangered Mexican spotted owl.

14.   Unauthorized changes in a plan designed to protect Mexican spotted owls could instead promote arson in the national forests of the Southwest, environmentalists say.

15.   A ranch and other buildings as well as archaeological sites and the habitat of an endangered Mexican spotted owl were threatened, Payne said.