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 ...

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The federal government has revised the critical habitat of the northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington and California from 9.5 million acres to 6.1 million, a change ...

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.

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 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, ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its final designation of 9.29 million acres of federal land and 291,570 acres of state land as critical habitat for the Northern Spotted ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...