Regional monitoring for endangered owls, salmon and frogs is done by seasonal biologists who aren’t being hired now under a ...

The freeze means the U.S. Forest Service can't hire seasonal scientists to count the threatened northern spotted owls, an Oregon State professor says. Other threatened and endangered species includnig ...

That freeze means the Forest Service cannot hire more than 40 seasonal scientists to count the owls, according to Taal Levi, an associate professor of wildlife biology at Oregon State University ...

The federal freeze prevents the hiring of seasonal staff to conduct annual monitoring of the endangered species, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.