the "spotted owl"  seemed to quickly represent the whole liberal hippy population in  the area. loggers not resenting the spotted owl would have been a surprise. i lived in florence for a bit at that time and for sure, every fri and sat nite -bar fights . there were loggers and fisherman struggling, hippies struggling - wild, wild west out there back then..
  the stopped timber income was  slam but it's what jump started both eugene and springfield to get open for business and develop a wider, more diverse commercial/industrial base. i think the marijuana industry has potential to help take up some of this lost money...