We’re officially in the dog days of summer, but it’s not just canines who are feeling the heat. Animals everywhere are looking for ways to cool off, from elephants seeing out water holes to pigs ...

As we heard from the Times-Standard a couple of weeks ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wants to shoot a lot of barred owls – more than 400,000 in fact! … in the belief that this is the ...

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 ...

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...

There is something shocking about trying to save one species by killing nearly half a million of another species. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed in a plan to save the ...

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 ...

A coalition of animal and wildlife advocacy groups submitted a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Monday to oppose a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan that would start a years-long effort ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking input on a recently released a draft plan that would, if put into action, cull significant invasive barred owl populations in the name of protecting the ...

Early last October, I was fortunate enough to spend an evening, along with a few other birders, with John Fedak at his saw-whet owl banding station near the Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny National Forest ...

This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Barred owls are native to ...