Matthew Brown

The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades.

Oregon and California are among the states where public hunting of the animals is currently prohibited

U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls in coming decades.