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Tom Wheeler, executive director of the Environmental Protection Information Center, which supports tamping down the barred owl population, said it wouldn’t just be the federal government footing the bill.

It’s also unclear what effect the federal job cuts will have on a controversial strategy to control what’s widely considered the northern spotted owl’s top threat — the slightly larger, more aggressive barred owl.

Sometimes we hear a barred owl in the tree.

To the untrained eye, the spotted owl and the barred owl look almost identical.

The proposal is also intended to prevent declines of the California spotted owl, which wildlife officials say is also facing encroachment from the larger, more aggressive barred owl in the Sierra Nevada.