A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest Service-led monitoring program for the endangered species said a federal ...

SEATTLE — To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost ...

Federal officials are planning to hire hunters with shotguns to exterminate tens of thousands of cat-sized barred owls in California and the Pacific Northwest as the birds "invade" from the east. The ...

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

JENNER HEADLANDS PRESERVE ― Ryan Berger stands motionless, head cocked, index finger in the air, as the call comes from the darkened redwood forest. Four notes dropping down at the end, repeated over ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of bipartisan Oregon state lawmakers are calling on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to stop a federal plan to kill invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The ...

The Barred Owl is considered “invasive” in the Pacific Northwest and it’s pushing the Northern Spotted Owl to extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan — kill nearly half a million ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed killing hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in an effort to protect the endangered northern spotted owl, which competes with the ...