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Senate declines to halt plan to kill off half-million barred owls by Fish and Wildlife Service
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/senate-barred-northern-spotted-owlsThe US Senate rejected an effort on Wednesday to halt a contentious US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) plan to kill nearly half a million barred owls in order to save their cousin, the northern spotted owl.
John Kennedy, the Republican senator from Louisiana, had hoped to block the proposal by bringing the matter to a vote with a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act. The effort failed with 25 votes to 72 votes.
John Kennedy, the Republican senator from Louisiana, had hoped to block the proposal by bringing the matter to a vote with a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act. The effort failed with 25 votes to 72 votes.
Unfortunately, this is the least bad short term solution. Without lethal control, barred owls will displace spotted owls across most of their native range, as they aren't native to the Western US. Even if all logging stopped, the old growth forests are fragmented, creating islands that isolate spotted owl populations and limit breeding. And restoring old growth forests for spotted owls is a solution that takes decades, if not centuries.
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