The US Senate has rejected legislation halting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Barred Owl Management Strategy (Strategy) set forth in its August 2024 Record of Decision (ROD), which aims to ...

Quietly, garnering little public attention, armed federal agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are seeking to shoot every barred owl in Pacific Northwest forests. As we will explain, the grisl ...

(AP) Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch armed bird specialists into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with ...

The Biden administration appears to be doubling down on a plan to kill barred owls in order to protect the northern spotted owl populations in Northwest forests. But a group of bipartisan Oregon ...

The Marin Audubon Society has joined a coalition of conservation groups defending a federal plan to kill invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The coalition has requested to intervene as ...

Regional monitoring for endangered owls, salmon and frogs is done by seasonal biologists who aren’t being hired now under a federal freeze Each spring, the U.S. Forest Service hires dozens of seasonal ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - After two decades on the nation's list of threatened plants and animals, the northern spotted owl is losing ground faster than previously thought, federal agency managers said ...