The Northern Spotted Owl is endangered due to habitat loss from clear-cut logging of old-growth forests it prefers. Logging has reduced its population size in British Columbia to the point of being listed as endangered on the province's Red List. Efforts to help the owls include adopting one, writing letters advocating for wildlife protection, and learning how to be a voice for endangered species. The owls were first protected in 1990 after being threatened by almost a century of logging, and continue to be monitored to assess the impacts of habitat preservation efforts.

1. ENGLISH 10-1
ENDANGERED
ANIMAL
Aleah Bakker

2. SPOTTE
D OWLRange: British Columbia, Canada

3. Description:
The Northern Spotted Owl is a fairly large, brown owl, 40 to 48 centimetres long, with a
puffy round head and no ear tufts. The chocolate to chestnut brown feathers of the head,
neck, back and under-parts have many circular or irregular white spots, for which this
attractive owl is named. The Northern Spotted Owl has large, round facial discs with dark

4. WHY ARE THE SPOTTED OWL ENDANGERED
AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP?
➤ WHY ARE THEY ENDANGERED?
➤ The northern Spotted owl has now been put on British
Columbia’s Red list because of how small its population has
become and their continuing habitat loss. The reason to which
they are endangered is because the northern spotted owl has
a preference for old-growth forests as their habitat, they are
greatly affected by clear-cut logging and on-going logging.
➤ HOW CAN WE HELP?
➤ You can adopted a spotted owl.
➤ write a letter to the B.C Government Officials.
➤ speak up for wild life, learn how you can be a powerful
advocate for wild life. http://www.defenders.org/wildlife-

5. HISTORY ON THE SPOTTED
OWL AND WHAT IS BEING
DONE TO HELP THE OWLS
➤ The spotted owl was first protected in
1990. After almost a century of logging
in their habitat, the northern spotted owl
was then licenced as a threatened
species under the endanger species
act. The spotted owl is a “keystone,” it
is an indicator species for old growth for
many other forests’ dependent species.
In the 1990s a lot of the logging
industry saw the northern spotted owl
as the threat or an enemy when
Federal Judge Dwyer forced the Forest
Service to preserve the owls and its
habitat.
➤ The spotted owl was also put through a
five-year scientific review by the US
Fish and Wildlife Service back in 2000

6. web-sights used: Weather network, Canada wild life federation, google images, wikipedia, defenders. org , and
conservationnw. org