As the Biden administration doubled down on a plan to kill barred owls, Oregon lawmakers appealed to Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency.

Despite protests from a few Oregon lawmakers about its effectiveness and cost, the Bureau of Land Management plans to implement a plan to eliminate barred owls on their lands.

The announcements come just days before the start of the Trump administration, which is widely expected to promote extractive industries over conservation.

The holdup in finalizing plans covering nearly 70 million acres of federal rangelands in all 10 Western states is linked to the agency's inability to resolve objections raised by the governors in those states.

The Bureau of Land Management has approved an updated, 20-year resource management plan and record of decision for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which a local wilderness council chairman cat

BLM takes action to protect northern spotted owl from invasive barred owl threat in Oregon, Washington, and California.

President Joe Biden's conservation and landscape health rule seeks to elevate conservation on par with other uses of bureau lands, and it faces an uncertain

According to the BLM, the northern spotted owl population is rapidly declining, and they are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.