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Conservation and Management
The most meaningful conservation policy in recent years has been protective measures that prohibit the shooting and trapping of owls for food, sport, or trophies. Harvesting of owls for food, feathers, claws (ornaments) by northern native peoples may impact local populations, but probably does not have the continent-wide potential for destruction as in the highly populated regions farther south. Other than shooting/trapping, the policies presently being enacted to protect large birds in general from electrocutions, airplane strikes, etc., will benefit the Snowy Owl.
Parmelee, David F. 1992. Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/010
