Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

A Republican congressman introduced a resolution to stop a government plan to kill roughly 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The plan is intended to protect spotted owls. The plan, ...

Members are challenging a Biden-era decision on lethal controls for barred owls in a bid to save the northern spotted owl. A bipartisan House alliance is taking aim at a Biden-era Fish and Wildlife ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...

DEI is apparently alive and well on the West Coast. The US government has begun shooting down up to 450,000 barred owls across California, Oregon and Washington — in a controversial culling effort to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the ...

A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot. "There she is," says Matthias Leu, chair of ...

A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special ...

Do you know that approximately 1,000 local or native owls call San Diego County home? Of the 19 owl species in North America, seven of them live in San Diego. Most common in our neighborhoods are the ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to ...

An unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers and animal rights advocates, together with others, is creating storm clouds for a plan to protect one threatened owl by killing a more common one. Last ...