The writer Franz Linz explores a federal plan to protect the spotted owl. By Soumya Karlamangla Northern spotted owls, which are losing a competition with barred owls over food and space in the ...

Kevin Larson was out for a jog in Tacoma’s North End in December when he felt something strike him. “It feels like somebody hit me in the back of the head with a rake,” he said of the early morning ...

(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 ...

Congress of the Birds, based in Providence, Rhode Island, gave new wings to a barred owl rescued by police officers in the town of Charlestown after it likely ate poison and was hit by a car, The ...

Florida firefighters’ recent call can only be described as an absolute hoot. Members of the Winter Park Fire-Rescue Department had no choice but to wing it when they got a call from a panicked ...

The Barred Owl is considered “invasive” in the Pacific Northwest and it’s pushing the Northern Spotted Owl to extinction. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a plan — kill nearly half a million ...

A bipartisan group of Oregon state House members and a newly elected state senator is asking the federal government to nix the idea of killing nearly half a million barred owls in the Pacific ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. (Don Ryan, Steve Legge / ...

In the same way that I like to look for signs of spring, now, in the fall, I enjoy the countdown to winter. I have a short-term goal as well — the countdown to Halloween. How many "ghoulish" things in ...

Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan to kill up to nearly a half-million barred owls in West Coast states over three decades to protect the spotted owl. A bipartisan group of ...

No one was more surprised than Clayton Conner when an owl flew into his truck while he was driving. Conner said was driving along with his windows halfway down when a barred owl flew into his truck ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to shoot the invasive owls in the Pacific Northwest to help protect the threatened northern spotted owl. A Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill scads of barred ...