U.S. Forest Service layoffs have upended surveys for spotted owls in Southern and Northern California, threatening data collection for the declining birds.

The northern spotted owl, native to the West Coast region, has been endangered since 1990. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Endangered Species Act and according to the American ...

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 ...

There are as few as 3,000 northern spotted owls left on federal lands. The brown raptors with white spots are listed as threatened under the California and federal Endangered Species Act.

In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls along the West Coast.

Donors to The Nature Trust of B.C. successfully raised $515,000 to save 36.3 acres of old coastal forest near Harrison Mills ...

Vizzachero, who worked for the government for a little over a year, said there was concern that listing the owls under the Endangered Species Act would hinder the Forest Service's ability to make ...

The northern spotted owl, native to the West Coast region, has been endangered since 1990. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and according to the American ...

A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest Service-led monitoring program for the endangered species said a federal ...

The northern spotted owl, native to the West Coast region, has been endangered since 1990. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and according to the American ...

It's breeding season for the rapidly declining California spotted owl, and Ben Vizzachero was about to lead an effort to survey the stately conifer forests and oak woodlands of Los Padres National ...