To prevent the extinction of the threatened spotted owl species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill thousands of invasive barred owls across forests in the western U.S. The plan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - A female barred owl sits on a branch in the wooded hills, Dec. 13, 2017, outside Philomath, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday urged the Trump ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) plans to begin culling up to about 450,000 barred owls from California forests next spring should it approve a new proposal later this year. A federal effort ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

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’s public lands commissioner, Hilary Franz, is voicing skepticism about a federal proposal to kill thousands of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to help the threatened northern spotted ...