Nature: Owls 02:06. The Trump administration said Wednesday that it would slash millions of acres of protected habitat designated for the imperiled northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington state ...

Environmental groups argued for a larger amount of habitat. Spotted owl populations are declining by nearly 3 percent a year, they note, and an estimated 40 percent in the last 25 years.

The federal government has removed 17 times more land from the threatened spotted owl’s “critical habitat” than it had originally proposed, likely provoking a court challenge.

The northern spotted owl has lost 70 percent of its habitat to development and timber harvesting and could go extinct without added federal protection, the Trump administration announced Monday ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. GRANTS PASS, ORE. -- The Bush administration has decided the ...

When spotted owls were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990, it was largely because they were losing so much habitat due to logging in old-growth forest.

The Bush administration proposes cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl.

The northern spotted owl first gained critical habitat protection in 1992, and those were adjusted in 2012 under the Obama administration. That rule was challenged in court by the timber industry, ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are ...

More than 30 years after it was listed under the Endangered Species Act, with much of its habitat protected, you might think the Northern spotted owl would be thriving. That has not been the case ...

The northern spotted owl can’t get a break. The Pacific Northwest bird's survival is in peril due to a combination of factors including climate change, wildfires, human-caused habitat ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups intervened today in a lawsuit brought by the timber industry and counties seeking to strip northern spotted owls of protections for their critical habitat across ...