It has been more than a decade since President Clinton's controversial plan to protect the northern spotted owl went into effect. This plan drastically cut back logging on 24 million acres of the Pacific Northwest. In a retrospective, Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press (see it here at Environmental News Network) reports that logging was reduced by more than 80 percent, but the spotted owl continues to decline. One reason is that the barred owl from Canada is invading its territory. Meanwhile, the timber produced from the national forests is only 54 per cent of what was anticipated under the plan. Barnard quotes a Forest Service scientist as saying: "Many of the impacts were different than predicted."