Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A barred owl at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in Oregon. (Ray Bosch/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A controversial plan to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both sides of the debate over whether to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save spotted owls presented arguments to a ...

Barred owls are notoriously aggressive and territorial, and have been known to attack humans, even when seemingly unprovoked. Now, the federal government plans to authorize killing up to 450,000 ...

The strange political bedfellows created by efforts to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest just got even stranger. Already Republican members of Congress were allied with animal rights ...

A controversial plan to kill up to half a million invasive barred owls to protect endangered spotted owls is in jeopardy after the Trump administration terminated three critical grants funding the ...

A controversial federal plan to kill nearly half a million barred owls along the West Coast is now in a judge’s hands after a key hearing last week in Portland, but an animal rights lawyer says the ...

Both sides of the debate over whether to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save spotted owls presented arguments to a federal judge June 3. The debate started two years ago, after the U.S.