Science Friday

A Startling Plan To Save Spotted Owls—From Barred Owls

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

Hoo’s That? New Study Reveals the Owls of the Davis Mountains

Owl sightings aren’t unusual in West Texas. You might spot a great horned owl in Alpine or Marfa, a barn owl in a farm ...
komonews

To save spotted owls, US plans to kill hundreds of thousands of West Coast barred owls

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 ...
KOIN 6

Groups challenge ‘colossally reckless’ plan to kill west coast barred owls

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of animal advocacy organizations are calling on the federal government to stop a proposal that aims to save spotted owl populations by killing invasive barred owls in ...
Yahoo

The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls

A northern spotted owl, left, and a barred owl. The federal government announced a plan to kill half a million of the invasive barred owls, which are encroaching on the habitat of the rapidly ...
Redding Record Searchlight

Spotted owl threatened by rival bird in California. Feds have bloody plan to save them

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 ...
KUOW

To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million of another owl species

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 ...
E&E

Fed plan to aid northern spotted owl takes deadly aim at rival bird

Many barred owls could die so that northern spotted owls may thrive under a management strategy finalized this week by the Fish and Wildlife Service. With the larger and more aggressive barred owls ...
USA Today

Feds want to hunt one kind of owl to save another kind of owl. Here's why.

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 Columbian

Why wildlife officials are killing some PNW owls to save others

ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a ...
Popular Science

These owls spread from east to west. Not everyone is pleased.

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