Matthew Brown
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U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that鈥檚 been in place for three decades. -
Oregon and California are among the states where public hunting of the animals is currently prohibited -
U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls in coming decades.
