DEI for the birds? US government to kill 450K owls on West Coast to thwart rival owl’s extinction

Source: New York Post

  DEI might still be alive and well on the West Coast. The US government has begun shooting down up to 450,000 barred owls across California, Oregon and Washington — in a controversial culling effort to thwart the extinction of a rival owl. The US Fish and Wildlife Service project to preserve the endangered spotted owl, finalized a year ago, should could cost taxpayers an estimated $1.