It's breeding season for the rapidly declining California spotted owl, and Ben Vizzachero was about to lead an effort to survey the stately conifer forests and oak woodlands of Los Padres National ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of ...

The agreement stems from a lawsuit filed by the groups in August 2020 that asserted the Trump administration’s decision to deny protection to the California spotted owl was unlawful and not supported ...

California spotted owl family found nesting and reproducing in the Lake fire of 2015 in the San Bernardino mountains, California, where no post-fire logging occurred. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Population sizes for the owl declined 33% to 55% in California since the 1990s, according to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. The northern spotted owl occupied 14,000 territories in 1993, ...

which could lead to the extinction of critically endangered species like the Florida panther and spotted owl. The proposal could threaten progress made to save species that once were endangered ...