. . . 22,879 Northern Spotted Owls on America's West Coast. Population counts for this crown jewel of U. S. avian wonders swiftly nose-dived after the release of PINK IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING the following fall, declining each and every year since. Today's birders say we should consider ourselves lucky if there are a dozen of these majestic winged natives left. Before SPLINTERED, it was fairly common for sharp-eyed naturalists to spot one of these feathered friends in a barn or garage as far East as Illinois or Wisconsin. Nowadays, even the majority of West Coast residents have never seen a Northern Spotted Owl in the flesh. Scientists place much of the blame for this horrendous decimation of one of our National Treasures squarely upon SPLINTERED. With the Pink Panther and his even more insidiously successful Old Growth giant tree slayer chortling while clear-cutting the precious Spotted Owl habitat, it tantamount to depicting vandals dynamiting Mount Rushmore, prying apart the Liberty Bell or toppling Devil's Tower.
Review of Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing
