Conservation groups intervened today in a lawsuit brought by the timber industry and counties seeking to strip northern ...

"It’s no surprise that corporate timber interests are resurrecting their attacks on northern spotted owls and the places they ...

The northern spotted owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and has been at the center of a contentious debate about logging ...

Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the latest casualties in the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. In a press release issued Wednesday ...

The Barred Owl is considered “invasive” in the Pacific Northwest and it’s pushing the Northern Spotted Owl to extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan — kill nearly half a ...

If we can’t do the surveys, the logging may need to stop,” he added. open image in gallery The northern spotted owl is one of the most studied birds in the world. Monitoring the federally ...

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

Officials said northern spotted owl populations in the northern half of the species’ range ‒ where barred owls have moved in most aggressively ‒ have dropped by more than 75% in 20 years.

When the northern spotted owl was listed as threatened on the Endangered Species Act in 1990, wildlife officials listed the barred owl as a potential threat to their population, Bown said.