Bipartisan lawmakers condemned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to shoot 450,000 barred owls as part of a ...

U.S. Forest Service layoffs have upended surveys for spotted owls in Southern and Northern California, threatening data collection for the declining birds.

A group of federal lawmakers has asked Interior Secretary Burgum to scrap a plan to kills thousands of owls in West Coast ...

which have long been controversial because of logging restrictions in the birds' forest habitat beginning in the 1990s, and the closely related California spotted owl.Barred owls are native to ...

"The obvious problem is that when you're cutting down trees, you could be cutting down the habitat for California spotted owl," said Vizzachero, referring to a hallmark of fuel reduction efforts.