At the world’s first breeding centre in Langley, B.C., spotted owls are hatched in incubators, given around the clock medical care and hand fed euthanized rodents in a last-ditch effort to save the species from Canadian extinction. All the while scientists warn that the province has yet to recognize the endangered raptor as a symbol of our escalating failure to protect old-growth forests

Federally threatened Northern Spotted Owls are vital indicators of forest health. The San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Program has been monitoring Northern Spotted Owls since 1999.

Northern spotted owl portrait. Photo: Isabelle Edwards Photography.

Because it requires old-growth forest, this owl has been at the center of fierce controversy between conservationists and the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest. The owl itself seems anything...

You won’t meet a Northern Spotted Owl in this story. The first reason is that, by the time I drive west from Sutherlin, Oregon, with Janice Reid one sunny N ...

An endangered wild northern spotted owl perches in a tree in an old growth section of forest on Bureau of Land Management property near Roseburg, Ore., on Monday, July 12, 2010. The owl, its mate, and young are being monitored by federal biologists from the BLM. The population of endangered northern spotted owls continues to decline due to habitat loss and other factors. According to Defenders of Wildlife there are fewer than 100 pairs of northern spotted owls in British Columbia, Canada…

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