Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the latest casualties in the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. In a press release issued Wednesday, the ...

Biologist Eric Forsman was delighted that a breeding pair of wild spotted owls he has studied for years did it again (their 3-week-old hatchlings on a hemlock in Oregon this past May). ⓒ Gary Braasch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of 19 lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter last week, asking the federal government to halt a plan that aims to kill tens ...

A coalition of conservation groups announced it has intervened in a lawsuit that seeks to remove almost 3.5 million acres of land in California, Oregon and Washington from protected status. The land ...

Every summer for decades, seasonal Forest Service employees have headed into some of the Pacific Northwest’s most rugged terrain to survey for threatened spotted owls. Under the Endangered Species Act ...