The federal government will move ahead with plans to kill tens of thousands of barred owls in Washington, Oregon, and California to protect threatened spotted owls. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

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 million ...

A bipartisan group of Oregon state House members and a newly elected state senator is asking the federal government to nix the idea of killing nearly half a million barred owls in the Pacific ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drawn two federal lawsuits from animal welfare groups alleging that a plan to cull invasive barred owls in national parklands — including three in Marin — ...

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. The ...

WASHINGTON, USA — A controversial plan to save one species in Washington state by killing another is set to begin soon. The Proposed Barred Owl Management Strategy developed by the U.S. Fish and ...

CHARLESTOWN – A barred owl that apparently consumed rat poison and was struck by a car in Charlestown is clinging to life at a rehabilitation clinic. "Unfortunately, the prognosis is guarded," said ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to shoot the invasive owls in the Pacific Northwest to help protect the threatened northern spotted owl. A Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill scads of barred ...