The U.S. Forest Service plan is part of a strategy to save endangered spotted owls in Washington, Oregon and California.

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan to cull barred owls in order to protect northern spotted owls, but it could be ...

By the mid-2000s, detections of the barred owl, an East Coast native spreading south from Canada, were surpassing the spotted owl throughout much of its territory.

A GOP resolution aims to cancel a government plan to kill barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect spotted owls.

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 ...

The Trump administration appears to be backing away from a controversial Biden-era plan to protect the spotted owl by killing ...

Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from ...

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To save the spotted owl from possible extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a plan to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls by deploying trained shooters into West Coast forests.

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, inside a lab in Corvallis, Ore. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ...

The birds already are being killed by researchers in some spotted owl habitats, with about 4,500 removed since 2009, said Robin Bown, barred owl strategy leader for the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The birds already are being killed by researchers in some spotted owl habitats, with about 4,500 removed since 2009, said Robin Bown, barred owl strategy leader for the Fish and Wildlife Service.