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.

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE – 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 ...

The federal government will move ahead with plans to kill tens of thousands of barred owls in Washington, Oregon, and California to protect threatened spotted owls. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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

Starting next year, US wildlife officials will scale up efforts to remove invasive barred owls in West Coast forests to protect native spotted owls. This plan aims to kill 452,000 barred owls over ...

U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out imperiled native owls from West Coast forests, under a plan ...

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 ...