To save the Spotted Owls in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. officials are planning to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its final ...

To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...

However, the federal agency, as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fell short of properly analyzing the effect on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Owls are often tough enough to spot in the wild because of their incredible camouflage, but the pearl-spotted owlet is even more difficult to spot because of its size. It is one of the smallest owls ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered after a lawsuit by conservation groups ...

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Nov. 16 proposed saving the endangered northern spotted owl by shooting more than 400,000 barred owls in Oregon and Washington over a 30-year period. USFWS ...

To the editor: Should we go into the forest with shotguns to save the spotted owl? I mean, how silly is this conversation? (“Kill barred owls so spotted owls can live? Wildlife service should put plan ...

Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered after a lawsuit by conservation groups required the ...

FILE - A northern spotted owl sits on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif., in June 1995. Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, announced a proposal to classify one of two dwindling ...