Every summer for decades, seasonal Forest Service employees have headed into some of the Pacific Northwest’s most rugged terrain to survey for threatened spotted owls. Under the Endangered Species Act ...

Claiming emergencies in timber supply and fire risk, the Trump administration has called for a “new era” in national forest ...

On Wednesday, the Trump administration proposed changing the definition of "harm" in the bedrock environmental law, which ...

The Trump administration is proposing a dramatic shift in the way the Endangered Species Act has been interpreted for decades ...

It has protected old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest that house northern spotted owls, saving them from extinction. In the 1990s, timber companies that wanted to harvest those old-growth ...

A female northern spotted owl catches a mouse on a stick held by Mark Higley, wildlife biologist for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, on the Hoopa Valley Reservation on Aug. 28, 2024. Biologists offer mice ...