West Coast counties joined with forest product companies Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s designation of critical habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl.

At the heart of the case was whether the 13,162-acre Shasta-Trinity National Forest project would harm northern spotted owl habitat in an older stand of forest near Weaverville. “We are pleased ...

Perched high in a tree, the tiny pearl-spotted owlet clutches its prize, proving that even the smallest hunters rule the treetops with silent precision Greenland lawmakers form a new government on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is implementing a divisive plan to save the endangered spotted owl by killing its competitor, the barred owl. The strategy permits the ...

Here among the world’s tallest trees, Hofstadter and Cameron are part of a tiny band of biologists holding the line against an invasion that threatens to push the northern spotted owl ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“What we found is that in the areas where barred owls were systematically removed, spotted owl populations stabilized," David Wiens, a supervisory research wildlife biologist for the U.S ...

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.

Environmental groups are hailing a new draft plan that aims to repopulate and protect endangered northern spotted owl as “excellent” after the federal government doubled the amount of land ...