An unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers and animal rights advocates, together with others, is creating storm clouds for a plan to protect one threatened owl by killing a more common one. Last ...

Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Texas), shown arriving at the U.S. Capitol in May 2025, called the owl-culling plan "a waste of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars." (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images ...

A coalition of conservation groups announced it has intervened in a lawsuit that seeks to remove almost 3.5 million acres of land in California, Oregon and Washington from protected status. The land ...

Wildlife advocates who oppose a controversial federal management plan to slaughter one type of owl in Pacific Coast forests to save another appear to have found an unlikely ally in President Donald ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Some conservation groups are working to save spotted owl habitats in Oregon, Washington, and California. On Wednesday, they filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit that was ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups intervened today in a lawsuit brought by the timber industry and counties seeking to strip northern spotted owls of protections for their critical habitat across ...

A northern spotted owl sits on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif., in June 1995. (AP Photo/Tom Gallagher, File) The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) was developed in 1994 for the 24 million acres of federal ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - After two decades on the nation's list of threatened plants and animals, the northern spotted owl is losing ground faster than previously thought, federal agency managers said ...

Rep. Troy E. Nehls, a Republican from Texas, backed by 17 co-sponsors from both political parties, introduced a resolution Wednesday that could mark the end of a plan to protect spotted owls in the ...