A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers is calling on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, heads of the to-be-established nongovernmental advisory body Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to help push for a halt in the federal government’s plan to kill roughly 450,000 barred owls.
The lawmakers said the cost of the project is $1.35 billion and are calling it expensive and unfeasible.
In a Jan. 6 letter to the DOGE leaders, the four lawmakers said the plan to hire specially trained hunters to kill owls in three states over 30 years, is “thoroughly impractical.”
“It just cannot work. It won’t work. It is a budget buster,” wrote Republican Reps. Ed Diehl and Virgle Osborne, along with Democrat Rep. David Gomberg and Republican Sen. Bruce Starr….