Funding For New 11,400-acre State-Tribal Wildlife Area Buy Near La Grande Awarded
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation reports $22 million from the US Forest Service has been awarded to complete the acquisition of nearly 18 square miles on the Grande Ronde River and Beaver Creek outside La Grande and which will be jointly managed with ODFW and open to the public.
SW WA, Lower Columbia, Buoy 10 Fishing Report (8-12-25)
Early August 2025 Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia, Buoy 10 and select Southwest Washington tributaries.
Enviro Orgs Sue Rufus Woods Net Pen Operator Over Facility Discharges
Operators of the commercial net pens that also raise nearly all of the fish released into Rufus Woods Lake for state and tribal anglers are being sued in federal court over discharges from their Northcentral Washington facilities.