“We work with forest managers and timber harvest projects, even responsible foresters who think they’re never going to cut down a tree with an owl nest. But it took us two years to find that nest even knowing one was there somewhere—it was just so hard to see it from the ground. It’s really scary to think that that tree could so easily have been cut.” This is why it’s so urgent to locate and map owl nests, whether in cavities in an aspen grove or on broken-top snags or in old hawk nests high up in a Ponderosa Pine. If the nests aren’t found and flagged, their host trees may come down.
