Wildlife advocates who oppose a controversial federal management plan to slaughter one type of owl in Pacific Coast forests to save another appear to have found an unlikely ally in President Donald Trump’s administration.

The plan approved by the former Biden administration would cull barred owls, an Eastern U.S. species considered invasive in the West, to protect the West Coast’s northern spotted owl , whose endangered status led to broad protections for forests in the 1990s. Trump removed such spotted owl protections in his first term, but his current administration, without explanation, has canceled three grants to start carrying out the barred owl removal plan in Northern California.

Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, praised the

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