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Removing barred owls easier than thought

  • JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press
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GRANTS PASS — It turns out that the mechanics of shooting invasive barred owls to make room for threatened northern spotted owls are cheaper and easier than some people had imagined.

Throw out the spotted owl
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Throw out the spotted owl

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Federal wildlife officials are back at the scrimmage line with a Hail Mary play they hope will provide added life support to the perennially struggling Northern spotted owl

One owl suffers for another’s fate
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One owl suffers for another’s fate

  • Jeff Barnard, The Associated Press
  • Updated

GRANTS PASS — Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch armed bird specialists into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction.

Pot grower’s poison eyed in owl death
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Pot grower’s poison eyed in owl death

  • Jeff Barnard, Associated Press
  • Updated

GRANTS PASS — In the West Coast marijuana-growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, scientists want to know whether the rat poison spread around illegal pot plantations is killing northern spotted owls, a threatened species.