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Ray Bosch/U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes that shooting the invasive owls will help the survival of native spotted owls. -
Nick Fisher/OPBU.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.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is developing a plan to manage the invasive Barred owl population on the West Coast. The plan would help with recovery of spotted owl species. -
They look alike, they live in the same areas, and they have even mated upon occasion. But barred owls and spotted owls do not generally co-exist, and鈥�
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It鈥檚 been nearly 20 years since the Northwest Forest Plan scaled back logging across the region, in large part to preserve habitat for the endangered鈥� -
Time for a few more words on the shooting of barred owls. The process recently began, in an effort to help spotted owls survive in areas where the owls鈥� -
The work long rumored recently got underway: gunfire killed barred owls in Northern California. And it was completely intentional, meant to give spotted鈥�
