(Olympia, WA) -- A plan to save the protected northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest by culling a larger, invasive owl species could be in danger. The Los Angeles Times reports the Trump administration canceled three owl-related grants to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife totaling over one-million dollars last month. One of the grants would have funded a project to remove the invasive barred owl from nearly 200-thousand acres in California. A group of lawmakers petitioned Trump in January to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to shoot down hundreds of thousands of barred owls across Washington, Oregon and California. The lawmakers say the plan is too expensive and, quote, "thoroughly impractical."