April 14, 2020
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to reevaluate its controversial decision to designate 9.5 million acres as critical habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl to settle a long-running dispute with a logging group and others that was revived by the D.C. Circuit.
March 21, 2013
A host of timber industry groups on Thursday mounted a challenge in Washington, D.C., to the Obama administration's controversial proposal to boost the northern spotted owl's federally protected habitat by 4.3 million acres, saying the plan relies on faulty habitat modeling data.