The northern spotted owl can’t get a break. The Pacific Northwest bird's survival is in peril due to a combination of factors ...

I have the unenviable duty to argue for lethally managing barred owls — charismatic and complex creatures to whom we owe consideration and respect, but which are also an invasive species ...

The charismatic northern spotted owl came to prominence during the Timber Wars of the 1980s and ‘90s, when the devastating loss of habitat after a century of intensive logging in old-growth ...

The spotted owl was listed under the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species in 1990. Immense numbers of salamanders, flying squirrels, wood rats — and even screech owls — have been ...

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 half ...

The northern spotted owl eats only rodents, primarily flying squirrels and wood rats. Scientists believe that the proliferation of barred owls threatens to knock western forest ecosystems further ...

The spotted owl was listed under the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species in 1990. Immense numbers of salamanders, flying squirrels, wood rats — even screech owls — have been ...

Recently, the Biden Administration’s wildlife agency approved a monstrous plan to shoot 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific ...

A 330-page document outlines the Proposed Barred Owl Management Strategy developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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 species on the hit list is the barred owl — a creature whose adaptability has enabled it to spread into new areas. This expansion is driving the increasingly rare spotted owl to extinction.