Barred owls are native to eastern North America and started appearing in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. They’ve quickly ...

The northern spotted owl long has been a lightning rod for environmental debates in this part of the country. In the 1980s and 1990s, logging restrictions were imposed to preserve the owl’s habitat in ...

researchers and wildlife advocates said.Barred owls arrived in the Pacific Northwest via the Great Plains, where trees planted by settlers gave them a foothold, or via Canada’s boreal forests ...