spotted owl

基本解释

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?
对，几年前，美国西北部一些环保人士为了保护猫头鹰的栖息地，阻止木材公司伐木而用铁链子把自己捆在树上。
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，俄勒冈州大部分地区变成了北花斑猫头鹰的“生存栖地” 指定区，限制了伐木业，失去了近1万个工作机会。
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.
在邻近旧金山北部的穆尔树林的森林，国家公园管理局的生物学家Bill Merkle不断播放斑点猫头鹰的叫声的录音，以期望得到一只野生斑点猫头鹰的回答。

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