Sec 8 (Longview) – 142 bank anglers kept three Chinook and one Chinook jack. 153 boats/358 rods kept 40 Chinook, two Chinook jacks and released one coho....
“Youth pheasant hunts are a great chance for young hunters to find early success and put the lessons learned in hunter education classes to work in the field,” says Jered Goodwin, ODFW hunter education coordinator....
“Over the last couple of years, anglers have come to look forward to the opportunity to fish in the fall for both all-depth halibut and deepwater lingcod on the same trip” said Lynn Mattes, ODFW Sport Halibut and Bottomfish Project Leader....
The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) today announced the award of more than $11 million in grants to 11 Chinook salmon habitat and hatchery projects from a new grant program under the Pacific Salmon Treaty. ...
A new Access and Habitat project, the Weyerhaeuser Access Project, will keep public recreational access open on 92,173 acres of privately-owned commercial timberland along the mid-coast for five years (through July 31, 2025)....
Lower Columbia mainstem Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam – 425 salmonid boats and 133 Washington bank rods were tallied during Saturday’s (8/15) flight count....
Point restrictions for whitetail bucks in seven Northeast Washington units, opening the 4-O Wildlife Area for general season deer and elk hunting, awarding hunters who kill hoof rot-stricken elk a chance to draw a special permit the following year, and tracking...
THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE ODFW will delay until 2022 any proposed changes to archery elk season that would move Eastern Oregon seasons to controlled hunting only. Other concepts to improve big...
State and federal wildlife managers have wrapped up a three-year effort to reduce mountain goat numbers in one Washington range and bolster herds in another, with 50 more of the animals translocated from the Olympics to the Cascades....
The 2020 Columbia River forecasted return of upriver bright adults is 233,400, with 18,150 of these fish expected to return to the Snake River. This forecast is large enough to allow for harvest in the Snake River. ...
WDFW this morning issued a "final" update on the Wedge wolves, saying they have removed both remaining members of the northern Stevens County pack in response to spring and summer livestock depredations....
The National Marine Fisheries Service today issued a permit to the three NW States, including Oregon, and six regional Tribes that were co-applicants to lethally remove sea lions in some areas of the Columbia River basin....
Washington wolf managers will target another pack in the state's northeast corner that they say has killed three calves and injured nine more in less than two months....
Last week, WDFW's Kelly Susewind booted Tim Coleman from the agency's Wolf Advisory Group following Coleman's participation in one of two recent lawsuits that attempted to undermine state management of wolves in Washington. ...
Hunters who bought a multi-season permit application for elk earlier this year, but were not selected in the April drawing, may be one of the additional 115 people who will be selected for surplus elk multi-season tags....