The northern spotted owl first gained critical habitat protection in 1992, and those were adjusted in 2012 under the Obama administration. That rule was challenged in court by the timber industry, ...

The Trump administration has slashed more than 3 million acres of protected habitat for the northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington and northern California, much of it in prime timber locations ...

The spotted owl got most of the blame because it was easy to blame them and it was undeserved,” Henson said. “It definitely had an impact, but not as bad as a lot of the timber industry folks ...

Environmental groups have pulled together a bipartisan effort in Congress, which introduced a bill Wednesday to halt a ...

Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from ...

The Late Mungers Project is the first site-specific, commercial implementation of the project that includes two timber sales. It authorizes 830 acres of commercial thinning of late-successional ...

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

To save the spotted owl from possible extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a plan to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls by deploying trained shooters into West Coast forests.

The spotted owl may be harder to spot in Canada if a proposal to build a ski resort in its habitat goes through. In an open letter, Cheam First Nation and the Wilderness Committee are urging the ...

"This revision guts protected habitat for the northern spotted owl by more than a third. It’s Trump’s latest parting gift to the timber industry and another blow to a species that needs all ...