UMPQUA — With four distinct hoots and a box of white mice, Amy Price lures a northern spotted owl within close range of her Maglite.  Read more…

In testimony before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee this morning, forest ecologist Dominick DellaSala of Ashland is expected to testify that politics trumped science in the Bush administration when it came to enforcing the Endangered Species Act.  Read more…

There they go again. In the latest example of their lapdog eagerness to ignore science and serve corporate interests, Bush administration officials have distorted critical recommendations on spotted owl protection.  Read more…

The Bush administration has proposed a new way to help the threatened northern spotted owl: killing its principal rival for habitat.  Read more…

A proposed new plan released Thursday to protect northern spotted owls includes changes urged by high-level officials in the Bush administration, leading environmentalists to charge that the administration is again threatening Northwest old-growth forests. Read more…

Forget logging and habitat loss, the biggest threat to the northern spotted owl is another owl, federal wildlife managers say.  Read more…

(Editor’s note: This story has changed since it was originally published. The Secretary of the Interior is designated under the Endangered Species Act as responsible for managing the recovery of endangered species. The earlier version of the story attributed that responsibility to the Fish and Wildlife Service.)  Read more…

A draft federal plan to rebuild a faltering population of protected northern spotted owls hinges on controlling a competing cousin of the bird — a marked departure from earlier concepts that viewed habitat as the key concern.  Read more…

Grim realities loom in the economy and ecology of our region. Libraries close. Congress cuts off generations-old timber funding to Western Oregon counties, leading some to threaten bankruptcy. County sheriff patrols grow thin. Unharvested forests grow thick with flammable understory, while scores of mills have closed. What goes on here?  Read more…