Plan calls for killing invasive barred owls in the region as early as spring 2025. The plan to kill about 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect native spotted owls will ...

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

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 ...

A young barred owl rescued from the side of the road in late May has been returned to the Windy Lake area to live out his days in the wild. “It’s a beautiful location with lots of tall pines ...

As soon as next spring, barred owls will be shot in the woods in a plan finalized Wednesday. As many as 450,000 barred owls could be killed in three states over the next 30 years in an effort to ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Jim and Birte ...

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.

Officials on the West Coast are preparing to cull hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another species of the bird. The proposal comes as part of the Barred Owl Management Strategy ...

Native to eastern North America, barred owls started appearing in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. They've quickly displaced many spotted owls, which are smaller birds that need larger territories ...