spotted owl

The group, appointed under former President Joe Biden, has completed its core assignment, but still has some remaining goals.

Five Northwest conservation groups have joined the federal government in defending a program to kill barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect the threatened northern spotted owl.

National forests in the Pacific Northwest were set to be protected under two major updates to forestry plans— but that changed Tuesday. Now just one proposal remains on the table.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes that shooting the invasive owls will help the survival of native spotted owls.

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.

A judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management’s use of commercial logging in southwestern Oregon violates federal law by threatening old-growth forest habitat.

FWS claimed in 2019 that two logging projects by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Oregon would not harm the endangered northern spotted owl.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is developing a plan to manage the invasive Barred owl population on the West Coast. The plan would help with recovery of spotted owl species.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday a decision to maintain protections on over 3 million acres of forest habitat deemed critical for the survival of the threatened northern spotted owl.

The Biden administration is proposing to undo a Trump rule that slashed millions of acres of critical habitat protections for the northern spotted owl.

A timber industry trade group and others are challenging the Biden administration’s decision to halt and reconsider the removal of millions of acres of federal protections for the northern spotted owl.

The decision to slash protections beyond an agency's recommended levels was pushed by the Trump administration in its final days.