Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest ...

Once a point of controversy in Oregon history, a new study from Oregon State University found a way to restore forests while ...

Oregon researchers say forest thinning practices don’t have to clash with efforts to protect the northern spotted owl.

Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered after a lawsuit by conservation groups required the ...

Restoring dry forests in the Pacific Northwest, shaped by frequent low-intensity fire and widely spaced trees, often means thinning dense stands that accumulated after decades of fire suppression.

West Coast counties joined with forest product companies Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s designation of critical habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl. Four rural ...

Federal officials are planning to hire hunters with shotguns to exterminate tens of thousands of cat-sized barred owls in California and the Pacific Northwest as the birds "invade" from the east. The ...

I was appointed to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recovery team in 2006-2008 as an independent scientist tasked with producing a recovery plan for the imperiled spotted owl under the George W. Bush ...

Biologist Eric Forsman was delighted that a breeding pair of wild spotted owls he has studied for years did it again (their 3-week-old hatchlings on a hemlock in Oregon this past May). ⓒ Gary Braasch ...

Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to preserve protections for 3.4 million acres (1.4 million hectares) of northern spotted owl habitat from the US-Canada border to northern California, ...

This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer. Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. About 25 years ago, the Northwest Forest Plan reduced logging on old ...