Addressing Misconceptions in News Articles Covering the Removal of Barred Owls in Northern Spotted Owl Habitat

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dc.contributor.authorWozniak, Samuel S.
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-30T17:43:53Z
dc.date.available2014-10-30T17:43:53Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.description59 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Environmental Studies and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Science, Spring 2014.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I analyze news article coverage of barred owl removal in northern spotted habitat. News coverage of the management reveals numerous misconceptions about ecological and management-based principles of barred owl removal. I identified and addressed the following three misconceptions in new articles: the failure to recognize the impact of barred owls on species other than the northern spotted owl, the assertion that barred owl removal is exorbitantly expensive and infeasible, and the expression that there is no hope for the recovery of the northern spotted owl. These misconceptions demonstrate that there is a large gap between the available information in government documents and scientific journal articles that is essential to forming a basic understanding of the issue, and the information described in news coverage. It is critical that the US Fish and Wildlife Service establish a more effective mode of communication with the media and public spheres in order to spread accurate information and gain positive views of environmental management.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18576
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of Environmental Studies, Honors College, B.S., 2014;
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectBarred Owl Removalen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Spotted Owlen_US
dc.subjectBarred Owlen_US
dc.subjectNorthwest Forest Planen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Managementen_US
dc.subjectNewsen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.titleAddressing Misconceptions in News Articles Covering the Removal of Barred Owls in Northern Spotted Owl Habitaten_US
dc.typeThesis / Dissertationen_US

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