More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have ...

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 millions of acres ...

"When wildlife starts turning up in unfamiliar places, it usually means their usual homes are no longer meeting their needs." ...

It’s no surprise that corporate timber interests are resurrecting their attacks on northern spotted owls and the places they ...

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 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 ...

A proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to kill roughly half a million barred owls to protect the spotted owl has conservationists and animal welfare advocates debating the moral issue of ...

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 ...

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.

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

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 ...