(Neil Jacobs | AP file photo) Kathleen Ramsay gets the attention of "Manchado," a Mexican Spotted Owl at the Wildlife Center near Espanola, N.M., in 2002. A federal judge has halted tree-cutting activities on all five national forests in New Mexico and one in Arizona until federal agencies can get a better handle on how to monitor the population of the threatened owl. The order was issued in early September 2019, out of the U.S. District Court in Tucson, covers 18,750 square miles.