The northern spotted owl first gained critical habitat protection in 1992; those were adjusted in 2012 under the Obama administration. “The forests these precious owls depend on also provide all ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will implement a strategy to help protect northern spotted owls on BLM-managed lands. According to the BLM, the northern spotted owl ...

ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., ...

In August, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a plan that involves the mass killing of the barred owl, an invasive species that infringes on the habitat of the Northern spotted owl, which is ...

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 ...

Where they were taken, northern spotted owl populations stabilized, resulting studies say. In control areas, where barred owls were left alone, spotted owls continued to decline at about 12% a year.

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.