A University of Wyoming researcher led a study of great gray owls in a four-state region, showing that range discontinuity could lead to genetic drift and subsequent loss of genetic diversity in these ...

The U.S. Senate cleared the way Wednesday for wildlife agents to kill nearly 500,000 barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest.

An iconic raptor of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem will be the focus of the weekly Harlow Summer Seminar Series at the renovated University of Wyoming-National Park Service (UW-NPS) Research ...

DULUTH — Driving along Haines Road on April 3, I noticed a great gray owl sitting in the snow. Great gray owls are creatures of the boreal forest and only occasionally are found this far south. I was ...

Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they ...

I had my second encounter with a great gray owl last week. After completing a day’s work, I went to the Spencer Mountain system on the north end where several trails embark from near the mouth of ...

In early January, Michaela Rice, a naturalist with the Minnesota Department of Resources, received a report of a dead owl along Highway 61. It was near Gooseberry Falls State Park along the North ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes ...

When compared to some other bird species, researchers found that great gray owls seem to have lower genetic diversity. However, there's no evidence that the low genetic diversity is currently having a ...

UW researchers led a study of great gray owls in a four-state region. The study, published in the May 31 online issue of Conservation Genetics, showed that range discontinuity could lead to genetic ...