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A plan by federal wildlife officials to protect spotted owls in in the Pacific Northwest by killing barred owls has created strange alliances.

Some Congressional Republicans, along with animals rights groups, want to stop the cull.

Loggers have joined environmentalists in raising the alarm about consequences if it doesn’t happen.

The strange political bedfellows created by efforts to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest just got even stranger.

Already Republican members of Congress were allied with animal rights activists.

They don’t want trained shooters to kill up to 450,000 barred owls, which are outcompeting northern spotted owls, under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servic

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