It was 50 years ago this month that President Richard Nixon signed what would become one of the nation’s most far-reaching environmental laws: the Endangered Species Act. The act was intended to ...

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 ...

Owls are some of the best-known birds in the world, famous for their hooting calls and their excellent eyesight. There are ...

A proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not only startling, but triggers questions about the power of humans to control our natural environment. The federal bureau’s latest plan to save ...

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 ...

The university’s research has visited Williamsburg, James City County, Newport News and Richmond for their studies.

Federal officials are taking action to save a threatened and endangered owl, but it will come at a cost to another species. The goal is to help the Northern and California Spotted Owl from the ...

Nearly a decade after Wild at Heart helped dig a habitat for the western burrowing owls at Zanjero Park, the raptor rescue nonprofit returned to relocate the ground-dwelling birds – uprooted by the ...

Re: “Feds propose shooting one owl to save another in Pacific Northwest” [Dec. 6, Local News]: Why is it that we never seem to be able to apply to ourselves the negative descriptors now so easily ...