(Olympia, WA)  --  A group of Oregon lawmakers is asking the incoming Trump administration to put a stop to a plan to save the protected northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.  The group of three Republican and one Democratic Oregon state lawmakers sent out a letter to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy yesterday.  The letter calls for an end to plans to shoot down hundreds of thousands of barred owls across in Washington state and Oregon in an effort to save the smaller northern spotted owl.  The lawmakers say the plan is too expensive and, quote, "thoroughly impractical."  The plan from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will enlist hunters to shoot and kill over 500-thousand barred owls in Washington state and Oregon over the course of 30 years.  Officials say the expansion of the barred owl from the East Coast into the Pacific Northwest over the last several decades has threatened the survival of the northern spotted owl.