A high-pitched screech cuts the night air. Then silence. Minutes pass with only the low drone of crickets. Then you hear it, a soft, crescendoing hoot. "There she is," says Matthias Leu, chair of ...
The spotted owl has been a conservation flashpoint for more than 30 years. While habitat loss has been their historic foe, their most recent threat comes from within the owl family tree: the barred ...