To save the endangered spotted owl from extinction, U.S. conservationists are embracing a controversial plan to deploy trained marksmen into dense West Coast forests to kill nearly half a million spotted owls that are crowding out their own kind. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s strategy released Wednesday aims to bolster declining spotted owl populations … Read more
To save the endangered spotted owl from extinction, U.S. conservationists are embracing a controversial plan to deploy trained marksmen into dense West Coast forests to kill nearly half a million spotted owls that are crowding out their own kind. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s strategy released Wednesday aims to bolster declining spotted owl populations … Read more
The survival of one owl species depends on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claims in its proposal to allow the organization to shoot hundreds of thousands of barred owls in West Coast forests over the next thirty years. The agency says the barred owl, which is not native … Read more