Oregon Lawmakers Ask Trump Administration to Halt Barred Owl Bounty

Four state lawmakers are asking the DOGE to nix a federal plan to kill barred owls, long protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

A barred owl is shown in the woods outside Philomath, Ore., Dec. 13, 2017. To save the imperiled spotted owl from extinction, U.S. wildlife officials want to deploy trained shooters into West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls. Don Ryan/AP Photo

A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers is calling on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, heads of the to-be-established nongovernmental advisory body Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to help push for a halt in the federal government’s plan to kill roughly 450,000 barred owls.

The lawmakers said the cost of the project is $1.35 billion and are calling it expensive and unfeasible.