A controversial plan to kill nearly a half-million barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest has the green light after the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution to stop it.

The Senate on Wednesday voted 72-25 to reject a bipartisan resolution, launched in July, which would have nullified the Biden-era owl-killing plan .

Wyoming Republican U.S. Sens. Cynthia Lummis and John Barrasso voted to reject the resolution.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Barred Owl Management Strategy comes with a roughly $1 billion price tag, and would involve wildlife agents shooting barred owls.

To give the spotted owls better odds, feds have already killed roughly 4,500 barred owls along the West Coast since 2009.

But apparently that’s not enough, so the plan is to shoot another 470,000 o

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