"When wildlife starts turning up in unfamiliar places, it usually means their usual homes are no longer meeting their needs." ...

The spotted owl of the north is lovely, large and rarely seen. It relies exclusively on ancient forests for its survival. This dependency has put it at the center of the debate over logging and ...

The northern spotted owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered ... impacts of changing “wildfire regimes” across western North America due to climate change, fire suppression and ...

Originally from the eastern part of North America, the owl started moving west in the ... It shares many of the same food sources as the Northern spotted owl, but it’s larger, more aggressive, and ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern ... The forest spans nearly 220 miles from north to south, stretching from Monterey to Los Angeles County.

The group’s president, Wayne Pacelle, described the management plan as both inhumane and futile, attempting to limit a fast-spreading owl that is native to North America and protected by the ...

The killings would reduce North American barred owl numbers by less than 1% annually, officials said. That compares with potential extinction for spotted owls, should the problem go unaddressed.

The killings would reduce North American barred owl numbers by less than 1% annually, officials said. That compares with potential extinction for spotted owls, should the problem go unaddressed.

Northern spotted owl populations have been rapidly declining ... of body count of a long-protected owl species native only to North America.” USFWS said it worked for years on a plan that ...

North of the border, a smaller but equally lethal effort is underway. From 2007 to 2021, British Columbia’s Northern Spotted Owl Recovery and Breeding Program relocated 108 barred owls and shot 42.

“But we do have a responsibility to do all we can to prevent spotted owls from going extinct.” The program is intended to kill less than one half of 1% of the current North American barred owl ...