David Johnson, the owl man of Umatilla
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Burrowing owl breeding pairs at Oregon's Umatilla Chemical Depot rose from only a few pairs to over 100 nesting attempts monitored by 2024, after David Johnson and collaborators built artificial burrows from plastic barrels and pipes to replace habitat lost when badgers disappeared.
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