Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

(AP) — To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, US wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barred owls, the famously aggressive and territorial species known to attack Pacific Northwest hikers and joggers, are now ...

ARCATA, Calif. — The hooting had died down and the two bird lovers faced the immensity of the dark forest. Scanning his light among the redwoods, Danny Hofstadter listened. The distant ocean sounded ...

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 ...