In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls along the West Coast.

Bipartisan lawmakers condemned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to shoot 450,000 barred owls as part of a conservation effort.

A group of federal lawmakers has asked Interior Secretary Burgum to scrap a plan to kills thousands of owls in West Coast states intended to protect another type of owl.