Western burrowing owls are diminutive, adorable and goofy — and conservation organizations have renewed calls for the state to protect them before it’s too late. Now, more than 20 years since a formal ...

HERMISTON — Deep in the sandy terrain of Rees Training Center, a small owl with bright yellow eyes peered from an artificial burrow that became home to the most successful burrowing owl colony in the ...

Western burrowing owls are diminutive, adorable and goofy — and conservation organizations have renewed calls for the state to protect them before it’s too late. Now, more than 20 years since a formal ...

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FLORENCE — Greg Clark gingerly handles a pair of cardboard carriers, each containing two small owls, as he joins a knot of sweating volunteers hammering stakes into the soil and shoveling dirt to seal ...

California’s western burrowing owls may soon see greater protections as a petition to list some populations of the bird as endangered has advanced through a state agency. This is the first major ...