Are snowy owls in trouble? It’s a topic wide open to debate

I remember clearly my first encounter with a snowy owl. I was driving in western Minnesota, in Pope County, looking for winter birds, when I noticed a white object sitting on top of a light pole. My heart raced as I got closer and realized it was, in fact, a snowy owl. 
It was obliging and stayed on the pole while I approached and took photos of it, which I still have (somewhere, in a box …). Snowies are pretty tame, because where they spend most of the year, they don’t see many people.

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