FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, inside a lab in Corvallis, Ore. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ...

The boxes for the barred owl, however, need be only 12 to 15 feet above the ground, also attached to a live tree or a post. These bird prefers to have the boxes more within a wooded area, but ...

In August 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a plan to kill 450,000 invasive barred owls along the West Coast. The plan permits the lethal removal of the owls by attracting them ...

The boxes for the barred owl, however, need be only 12 to 15 feet above the ground, also attached to a live tree or a post.These bird prefers to have the boxes more within a wooded area, but ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill around 15,000 barred owls each year in three Western states to help save the threatened northern spotted owl. An animal welfare group is now in federal ...

If the plan is fully implemented, a maximum of 452,583 barred owls could be killed. According to the agency, under “maximum implementation,” the strategy would result in the annual removal of ...

The Biden administration appears to be doubling down on a plan to kill barred owls in order to protect the northern spotted owl populations in Northwest forests. Trending‘Never say die ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has pulled the trigger on a plan to kill more than 450,000 barred owls over 30 years to keep the northern spotted owl from being driven out of Oregon and Washington.

The agency's plan called for more than 2,400 barred owls to be removed this year and for that number to ramp up to more than 15,500 birds annually beginning in 2027.