October nights are for the full moon, prancing bucks, warm flannel and owls. Bow hunters and bear hunters know the magic of ...

The old tulip tree in my backyard is one of many, but this one has a knothole, maybe four inches in diameter and twenty feet up the trunk. One day the knothole seemed to attract a lot of attention. A ...

A barred Owl at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. (Ray Bosch/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The federal government will move ahead with plans to kill tens of thousands of barred owls in ...

The writer Franz Linz explores a federal plan to protect the spotted owl. By Soumya Karlamangla Northern spotted owls, which are losing a competition with barred owls over food and space in the ...

Federal officials are planning to hire hunters with shotguns to exterminate tens of thousands of cat-sized barred owls in California and the Pacific Northwest as the birds "invade" from the east. The ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has drawn two federal lawsuits from animal welfare groups alleging that a plan to cull invasive barred owls in national parklands — including three in Marin — ...