CENTRALIA — Southwest Washington’s Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler and several Republicans from Western states have aligned themselves with Lewis County and the timber industry in pressuring the Biden administration to move forward in greatly reducing critical habitat for northern spotted owls across the Pacific Northwest.
The policy – announced by the Fish and Wildlife Service earlier this year but put on hold by the White House – came as a shock to conservationists.
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