How are barred owls adapting to increased urbanization? William & Mary researchers are on it.

The university’s research has visited Williamsburg, James City County, Newport News and Richmond for their studies.
Yahoo

To save the spotted owl, wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of thousands of competing owls

To save the Spotted Owls in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. officials are planning to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its final ...
Daily Journal

To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of ...
komonews

Can the new owl management plan prevent the extinction of spotted owls?

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 ...
OPB

Killing barred owls isn’t the way to to save northern spotted owls, says group of Oregon philosophers

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed killing hundreds of thousands of barred owls over the next 30 years in an effort to protect the endangered northern spotted owl, which competes with the ...
AOL

Environmental groups sue to stop USFWS plan to killed barred owls

Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop a plan to kill barred owls, which is part of a federal plan to save endangered spotted owls. Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a ...
Yahoo

To protect an endangered owl species, government biologists propose killing off other owls

A juvenile barred owl in Kirkland, Wash. (Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images) The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
East Bay Times

Lawsuits seek to stop barred owl culling, including the Bay Area

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drawn two federal lawsuits from animal welfare groups alleging that a plan to cull invasive barred owls in national parklands — including three in Marin — ...
Capital Press

Barred owl removal strategy accused of interfering with ‘evolutionary paths’

A federal plan to kill barred owls to protect spotted owls interferes with the “evolutionary paths” of the species contrary to environmental laws, according to animal rights advocates. The Animal ...
Seattle Times

Focus on restoring healthy forests, lush habitats

A proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not only startling, but triggers questions about the power of humans to control our natural environment. The federal bureau’s latest plan to save ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

To save spotted owls, Wildlife officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...
KING5

To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

WASHINGTON, USA — To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill ...