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Byline: Dan Sorenson
Jul. 24--Arizona's burrowing owls aren't an endangered species, and Greg Clark would like them to stay that way. With volunteer labor, borrowed backhoes, buried plastic 5-gallon buckets and PVC pipe, he's been doing his best to build artificial burrows for the little owls.
Clark works with Wild at Heart, a Cave Creek-based not-for-profit that has led the effort to move hundreds of the tiny owls displaced from agricultural land being developed in Maricopa County to artificial burrows installed throughout the rest of the state. He estimates volunteers have dug nearly 2,000 burrows, roughly equally divided between the northern, southern, eastern and western parts of the state. Some are for transplanted Maricopa County owls; others may be used by migrating populations. The group pioneered the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Underground help for owls: Volunteers build artificial burrows for...