West Coast counties joined with forest product companies Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s ...

Although northern spotted owl populations have continued to drop, the Bush administration ramped up attacks on the owl by releasing a recovery plan that proposed less habitat protection than the ...

Before the species' official designation as threatened, annual logging rates on national forests in Oregon were so extreme that the Bureau of Land Management estimated that suitable northern spotted ...

Gary Braasch A 1991 court ruling helped the Northern spotted owl (in Oregon's Coast Range this past May) by sparing much of its old-growth forest habitat. Now what? ⓒ Gary Braasch The owl ...

In August this year, Fish and Wildlife decided to scale back the northern spotted owl’s protected habitat by 209,000 acres as part of a settlement with a carpenters’ trade union, which depends on wood ...

The spotted owl has been categorized as threatened under the Endangered Species Act since the 1990s, due in large part to the encroachment of barred owls on their habitat. Now, ecologists are ...

Efforts to track northern spotted owl populations might be one of the ... or endangered species or adversely modify their ...

Northern spotted owls, a subspecies found only in mature forests of the Northwest, were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 due to logging of their habitat. This prompted ...