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To protect an endangered owl species, government biologists propose killing off other owls

A juvenile barred owl in Kirkland, Wash. (Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images) The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
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Man has close encounter with wild owl at Lake Shawnee

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fred Bettencourt was taking his dogs for a walk around Lake Shawnee earlier this week when he had an unexpected wildlife encounter he won’t forget anytime soon. 27 News caught up with ...
AOL

DEI for the birds? US government to kill 450K owls on West Coast to thwart rival owl’s extinction

DEI might still be alive and well on the West Coast. The US government has begun shooting down up to 450,000 barred owls across California, Oregon and Washington — in a controversial culling effort to ...
Los Angeles Times

A plan to shoot 450,000 owls — to save a different owl — could be in jeopardy

Federal wildlife officials approved a plan last year to protect northern spotted owls by shooting other owls, but it has faced pushback from animal rights advocates and lawmakers — including ...
NPR

To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million of another owl species

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a ...
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To save spotted owls, US plans to kill hundreds of thousands of West Coast barred owls

Video shows ambush of Bellevue police officers responding to false 911 call Newly-released videos show the moments a man ambushed Bellevue police officers with a knife as they were responding to a ...
Los Angeles Times

Kill barred owls so spotted owls can live? Wildlife service should put plan on hold

There is something shocking about trying to save one species by killing nearly half a million of another species. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed in a plan to save the ...
The Washington Post

The owl hunters

ARCATA, Calif. — The hooting had died down and the two bird lovers faced the immensity of the dark forest. Scanning his light among the redwoods, Danny Hofstadter listened. The distant ocean sounded ...
KOIN 6

Groups challenge ‘colossally reckless’ plan to kill west coast barred owls

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of animal advocacy organizations are calling on the federal government to stop a proposal that aims to save spotted owl populations by killing invasive barred owls in ...
Business Insider

US agency proposes shooting dead tens of thousands of owls of one kind to save owls of another kind

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposes killing thousands of one owl species to preserve another. The invasive barred owls are threatening native spotted owls, the agency said. The service suggests ...
AOL

To protect an endangered owl species, government biologists propose killing off other owls

The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argues in its proposal to allow the agency to shoot hundreds of thousands of barred owls ...