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A woman in a green hat is laying on the ground, which has green grass and yellow flowers. She is looking into a dirt hole and holds a blue bowl in her hand with dirt in it.

Ecologists help with burrowing owl ‘spring cleaning’ at Umatilla Chemical Depot

(Runtime 3:42) CORRECTION 4/10/25: An earlier version misstated how poisoning, trapping and shooting had affected burrowing owls numbers. The poisoning,…

A woman wearing a blue shirt holds a small owl on her forearm. A group of children and their families are gathered around her, looking at the owl.

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Nonprofit releases screech owl as part of outdoor education for kids

(Runtime 3:39)At the Palouse Nature Center in Moscow, Idaho, kids were getting excited for the release of a Western screech owl that had been…

Burrowing owl populations are declining each year at a rate of 2 to 3 percent.CREDIT: NICK FISHER/OPB

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Umatilla's Owl Man Is Bringing Burrowing Owls Back From The Brink

A decommissioned chemical weapons depot and a lone biologist might be the last hope for a population of burrowing owls.