ate their food sources — flying squirrels, salamanders, woodrats, voles and mice — and sometimes killed them, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. When the northern spotted owl was ...

FEEDING: Flying squirrels are a favorite treat of northern spotted ... POPULATION TREND: A once-common resident of old-growth forests, the northern spotted owl was scraping by on just 12 percent of ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are ...