SEATTLE — A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to kill non-native owls to protect the endangered northern spotted owl has sparked controversy among conservation groups. Decades of work have been done to ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...

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 ...

Some environmental and birding organizations reluctantly endorsed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s management plan – a “gut-wrenching” call, as Birds Connect Seattle put it. Other animal welfare ...