Starting next year, US wildlife authorities will significantly escalate their campaign to eliminate invasive barred owls from West Coast forests, in an effort to safeguard endangered native owl species. This strategy, finalized on Wednesday, confronts the challenge of barred owls re-inhabiting areas after previous removals.
Expert marksmen will be deployed across an area spanning roughly 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometers) in California, Oregon, and Washington, with the objective of reducing the barred owl population by up to 452,000. The U.
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