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 ...

Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Texas), shown arriving at the U.S. Capitol in May 2025, called the owl-culling plan "a waste of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars." (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images ...

Barred owls, with their vivid brown stripes, are acting like bullies of the forest in the Northwest, driving their smaller cousins, the northern spotted owl, to the brink of extinction. Once barred ...

SEATTLE — A hiker believes he was attacked by an owl while he was walking on a trail at Discovery Park in Seattle. "All the sudden, I felt like I got hit over the head by a stick or something out of ...

A Republican congressman introduced a resolution to stop a government plan to kill roughly 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. The plan is intended to protect spotted owls. The plan, ...