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Amanda Loman/APThe group, appointed under former President Joe Biden, has completed its core assignment, but still has some remaining goals. -
Danny HofstadterFive Northwest conservation groups have joined the federal government in defending a program to kill barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect the threatened northern spotted owl.
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National forests in the Pacific Northwest were set to be protected under two major updates to forestry plans鈥� but that changed Tuesday. Now just one proposal remains on the table. -
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes that shooting the invasive owls will help the survival of native spotted owls. -
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. -
A judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management鈥檚 use of commercial logging in southwestern Oregon violates federal law by threatening old-growth forest habitat. -
FWS claimed in 2019 that two logging projects by the Bureau of Land Management in southern Oregon would not harm the endangered northern spotted owl. -
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. -
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday a decision to maintain protections on over 3 million acres of forest habitat deemed critical for the survival of the threatened northern spotted owl. -
The Biden administration is proposing to undo a Trump rule that slashed millions of acres of critical habitat protections for the northern spotted owl. -
A timber industry trade group and others are challenging the Biden administration鈥檚 decision to halt and reconsider the removal of millions of acres of federal protections for the northern spotted owl.
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The decision to slash protections beyond an agency's recommended levels was pushed by the Trump administration in its final days. -
Several Western Democratic lawmakers want an immediate review of the Trump administration decision to remove millions of acres of the northern spotted owl鈥檚 critical habitat. -
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the northern spotted owl deserves an upgrade to 鈥渆ndangered鈥� status. The agency passed on its chance to do so and is now cutting its protected habitat by several acres.
