It’s no secret that owls are a hot topic in the bird world. These birds of prey are fascinating, unique and rarely seen due ...

Federal layoffs have created chaos for Northwest public lands, and a cascade of damaging environmental consequences appears ...

Shooting roughly 450,000 barred owls over three decades could help spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest rebound, the agency said. The plan has divided wildlife advocates, with some accusing the ...

Claiming emergencies in timber supply and fire risk, the Trump administration has called for a “new era” in national forest ...

The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the ...

(CN) — Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan has protected 24 million acres of Pacific Northwest forests from logging ... with habitat restoration for species like the northern spotted owl, which ...

In 2021 the Center and allies in the Pacific Northwest filed a lawsuit to reinstate federal protections on more than 3.4 million acres of federal old-growth forests, essential habitat for the northern ...

Designating the owl as a threatened species in 1990 led the government to set aside 9 million acres of land as protected habitat, a move some complain has decimated the logging industry in the Pacific ...

Every summer for decades, seasonal Forest Service employees have headed into some of the Pacific Northwest’s most rugged terrain to survey for threatened spotted owls. Under the Endangered ...