Science Friday

A Startling Plan To Save Spotted Owls—From Barred Owls

To save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. Conservationists and ...
Los Angeles Times

Kill barred owls so spotted owls can live? Wildlife service should put plan on hold

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 ...
NPR

To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million 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 ...
The New York Times

They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?

An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years. Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over ...
KOIN 6

Groups challenge ‘colossally reckless’ plan to kill west coast barred owls

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of animal advocacy organizations are calling on the federal government to stop a proposal that aims to save spotted owl populations by killing invasive barred owls in ...
KING5

Plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another PNW owl species set to begin

WASHINGTON, USA — A controversial plan to save one species in Washington state by killing another is set to begin soon. The Proposed Barred Owl Management Strategy developed by the U.S. Fish and ...
Kitsap Sun

There's a plan to kill thousands of owls in Washington. Some lawmakers want to stop it.

A group of 19 lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter last week, asking the federal government to halt a plan that aims to kill tens of thousands of barred owls along the West Coast, including in ...