The U.S. Senate cleared the way Wednesday for wildlife agents to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife is proposing killing half a million barred owls across Washington, Oregon and California to save a ...

The two-page resolution provides for congressional disapproval of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that proposes killing roughly 453,000 Barred Owls in Washington, Oregon and California. The ...

Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for comment via online contact form.

A debate rages over the culling of barred owls to save northern spotted owls, one that eludes easy classification.

Kennedy will get a vote Wednesday on his Congressional Review Act resolution to strike down a Biden-era Fish and Wildlife Service plan. It calls for killing about 450,000 nonnative barred owls in the ...

A Senate debate over a plan to protect an endangered owl species by killing other owls turned heated on Wednesday, though the Biden administration's controversial proposal survived. GOP Sen. John ...

Non-native barred owls are believed to have been responsible for a 65% to 85% decline in spotted owl populations between 1995 and 2017.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and ...

A new study of nearly 800 barred owls on the West Coast shows the invasive predator feeds on 29 species given special ...

A controversial conservation strategy that has sparked division among both lawmakers and environmentalists will move forward.