It's still there. It's just getting further and further away. It's very valuable to the lumber industry.

Many owls live very different lives than each other. Large owls don't migrate and will spend their lives a few miles from where they were born. If that home disappears, they don't know where else to live or find food.

Owls that migrate come from up north in the wilderness where they don't really even know what people are, like the Saw Whet Owls. They're used to moving and finding new food, and are much smaller.

Some like Barn Owls and Barred Owls are aggressive, highly adaptable, can live along side people, and can kill most other owls for territory. This along with human activity is what is driving the Spotted Owls in US and Canada to extinction, since multiple species are trying to kill them.

So we still have old growth forest and owls, but neither the amount or diversity of either we used to.