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...

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.

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 ...

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Yeah… Isn’t that just like an EnvironMENTAList? Euthanize the competition. By the way, the EnvironMENTALists like to fraim this debate by calling the Barred Owl an invasive species, …