Dennison and her husband, Tim, have seven raptors that have what some might dub a “life of Riley.” They occupy ...

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 proposal comes as part of the Barred Owl Management Strategy developed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which is officially being implemented in the states of Washington, Oregon and ...

Bown said people trained in firearms would walk through forests in the dead of night with shotguns, flashlights and ...

“What we found is that in the areas where barred owls were systematically removed, spotted owl populations stabilized," David ...

The species on the hit list is the barred owl — a creature whose adaptability has enabled it to spread into new areas. This expansion is driving the increasingly rare spotted owl to extinction.

The Proposed Barred Owl Management Strategy developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is officially being implemented in Washington, Oregon and California. "If we do nothing ...

But even amid subsequent logging restrictions on federal land and other conservation measures, spotted owl populations continued to decline as barred owls moved west and then south along the West ...

Federal officials are planning to hire hunters with shotguns to exterminate tens of thousands of cat-sized barred owls in California and the Pacific Northwest as the birds "invade" from the east.

A northern spotted owl flies after an elusive mouse jumping off the end of a stick in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., May 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) (AP) — U.S. wildlife ...