The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is releasing a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for a management plan to address a significant decline in the California bighorn sheep population on Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge. The Service is opening a 45-day...
WDFW is taking the next step on alternative commercial gear on the Lower Columbia by beginning the rulemaking process to allow fishermen to apply to use beach and purse seines and pound nets, "opening these alternative gears for expanded study and...
A North Sound organization filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Western Washington late Wednesday afternoon against federal and state salmon fishing overseers, claiming the agencies are violating part of the Endangered Species Act related to the process for setting...
Oregon and Washington fishery managers recently announced seasons and regulations for 2021 Columbia River summer and fall salmon and steelhead fisheries....
A sportsmen's show organizer whose company pulled off the first large-scale consumer events in the Northwest during the pandemic reports good business and few compliance issues at two held in Oregon last month....
Reason for action: The 2021 Columbia River forecasted return of upriver spring Chinook salmon is sufficiently abundant to allow for harvest opportunity on the Snake River based on WDFW Commission Policy C-3620. The U.S. v. Oregon (2018-2027) Management Agreement provides Endangered...
"The Department is well positioned for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead." That is literally the bottom line in an all-staff message yesterday from WDFW Director Kelly Susewind coming out of the just-concluded Washington legislative session....
There aren’t many good-news stories in the Puget Sound steelhead world, but today we have two. With federal approval in hand, WDFW began releasing a new local strain of summer-runs into the Skykomish, ensuring continuation for the popular fishery on the...
Washington's wolf population rose once again – and sharply this past year – and now number a minimum of 178 as of this past winter count, up from 145 at the end of 2019, according to WDFW....
The statewide trout fishing season heats up beginning April 24, when hundreds of lakes throughout Washington open for business and the annual statewide trout derby kicks off for 2021....
Last fall saw the highest Washington deer harvest since 2016 as nearly 10,000 more deer hunters than the previous season also took to the woods and fields of the Evergreen State....
A major new piece of legislation, co-sponsored by Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio, was introduced in the House of Representatives today. The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2021 (RAWA) would provide vital new resources for the conservation of Oregon’s at-risk fish and...
State wildlife biologists counted 173 wolves in Oregon this past winter, a 9.5 percent increase over last year’s count of 158 according to the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management 2020 Annual Report released today at odfw.com/wolves....