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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of ...

Northern spotted owls are currently listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, though they may be under even greater threat than many realize.

A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest Service-led monitoring program for the endangered species said a federal ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to shoot 470,000 barred owls in West Coast forests over 30 years because the birds are crowding out the region’s native spotted owls.

Spotted owls have long been part of a fight between Republicans and Democrats over the appropriate role of government, the Endangered Species Act and the economic consequences of protecting wildlife.

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 half ...

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 ...

Perhaps no species was more emblematic of conflict over the Endangered Species Act in the Pacific Northwest than the Northern spotted owl. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...