U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan finalized ...

Restoring dry forests in the Pacific Northwest, shaped by frequent low-intensity fire and widely spaced trees, often means thinning dense stands that accumulated after decades of fire suppression.

Last month in Virginia, news reports told the story of a barred owl that shimmied down a chimney and perched on the family’s Christmas tree, displacing the star placed at its apex. Around the same ...

A plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls is moving forward. The Senate rejected a resolution to block the program, The Center Square reported Friday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Conservation groups are decrying a decision by the federal government to not reclassify the northern spotted owl from threatened to endangered — a more severe classification ...

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of ...

In the pitch-black night, the sounds of spring peepers filling the air, headlamps twinkle in the distance as Chris Neri and Nova Mackentley stroll through a half-mile loop of woods at the Whitefish ...

(AP) - U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. To save the imperiled spotted owl from ...