The U.S. Senate cleared the way Wednesday for wildlife agents to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls to save spotted owls in the ...

A Senate debate over a plan to protect an endangered owl species by killing other owls turned heated on Wednesday, though the Biden administration's controversial proposal survived. GOP Sen. John ...

The two-page resolution provides for congressional disapproval of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that proposes killing roughly 453,000 Barred Owls in Washington, Oregon and California. The ...

A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot.

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 — ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill around 15,000 barred owls each year in three Western states to help save the threatened northern spotted owl. An animal welfare group is now in federal ...

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 ...