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When The BBC Came Looking For Wolves

It’s a very long way from Broadcast House in Southwest England to the Methow, but this past February, the BBC showed up in this North-central Washington valley. …read more…

A Minimum Age To Hunt In WA?

COLUMNIST SUGGESTS REVISTING ISSUE IN WAKE OF HUNTER-ED INSTRUCTORS’ DISMISSAL

by Leroy Ledeboer

When the news broke that the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife had decertified Clare Cranston, a volunteer hunter education instructor in the Tri-Cities with a whopping …read more…

Rural Legislators Question WDFW’s Wolf Info, Land Plans

AS CANIS LUPUS MOVES INTO OKANOGAN COUNTY, THE AGENCY HAS A LONG-TERM PLAN TO ‘SECURE’ 80,000 ACRES OF RANCHLANDS THERE FOR ‘RARE, WIDE-RANGING CARNIVORES.’

Editor’s note: This version of the article printed in Northwest Sportsman’s November 2010 issue clarifies how …read more…

Das Jet Boot

PAUL WARREN-SMITH OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE'S COMMERCIAL SERVICE CLIMBS ABOARD A CUSTOM WELD JET BOAT WHILE KLAUS SCHNEIDERS, EDITOR OF THE GERMAN MAGAZINE SKIPPER (RED JACKET), LOOKS ON. (P'CHELLE INTERNATIONAL)

Aluminum fishing boat builders on the Snake River hope to tap into the German and other European markets.

CLARKSTON, Wash.–Salmon are beginning to recover in the Rhein, and though it may be a long, lonnnnng time before anyone’s hover fishing …read more…

Marijuana Growers Invade Northwest Hunting Grounds

WHAT IS BELIEVED TO BE WDFW OFFICER SHAWN MYERS CARRIES MARIJUANA PLANTS SEIZED AT A CHELAN COUNTY, WASH., BUST IN 2008. (SGT. DOUG WARD, WDFW)

‘They were in some of the best hunting areas I know,’ says one hunter; ‘Grave concern over the threat to public safety,’ says a WDFW official.

ROYAL CITY, Wash.–Washington outdoorsmen say illegal marijuana gardens are cropping up where they chase …read more…

ODFW’s Greenback Hatch Peaks In May

ODFW'S MONTHLY RESIDENT FISHING LICENSE SALES 1999-2009. (ODFW)

SALEM–If your store sells resident Oregon fishing licenses, hire extra clerks for the big rush next month.

Statewide, May sees the highest sales of the year. As many as one out of every five licenses are bought now, even though …read more…

FARMER, Wash.–Gems come in many colors, and for the lake once known as “the gem” of Washington trout fishing, the spectrum has included shades of pink, maroon, chocolate and turquoise, often changing complexion in just days as “algae” blooms mature.

Springer Science

THIS MAP SHOWS PASSAGE UPSTREAM PASSAGE OF SIX RANDOM COLUMBIA BASIN SPRING CHINOOK DURING LAST YEAR'S RETURN. THE FISHES' PIT TAGS WERE READ AT ARRAYS ON CERTAIN DAMS AND FISH WEIRS AS THE SALMON SWAM PAST. (ANDY WALGAMOTT)

So what affects how fast spring Chinook blow up the Columbia? Why do they hit the big river when they do? What saltwater and freshwater cues factor into the species’ decisions? And why won’t they bite your killer cutplug?!

In …read more…

The Dishonor Roll

HE'S "NOT SMILING ANY MORE," SAYS A LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCE ABOUT ROBERT HURST, SENTENCED YESTERDAY FOR ILLEGALLY KILLING THIS WHOPPER BULL ELK INSIDE OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK. (U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE)

IT’S A NATIONAL PARK, NOT A HUNTING AREA, JACKASS

Robert Hurst might have gotten away with poaching a bull elk in Olympic National Park – if the animal hadn’t been so big.

He and several others had to make multiple …read more…

Winged Wanderers

EUGENE—The past few seasons have seen the Oregon Ducks travel to Pasadena, Pullman and West Lafayette, Ind., but another species of Oregon duck has gone even further afield.

Mallards banded in the Beaver State have shown up in at least …read more…