King County shares the good news about how Lake Sammamish kokanee have begun to bounce back from the brink as well as plans to expand hatch boxes on tributaries....
Eliminating the Marine Mammal Commission. Eliminating $500 million for a new downstream salmon and steelhead smolt passage facility on a King County river that will help open 100 miles of "high-quality" spawning and rearing habitat....
NOAA details how a largescale habitat project on Southwest Washington's lower East Fork Lewis River will improve Chinook, steelhead and chum habitat, as well as benefit anglers and the local economy....
The suspension of most recreational activities on the Yakima Training Center in Central Washington by the US Army due to a "hiring freeze" and upcoming military training has blown up hundreds of elk and deer special permits that were otherwise going...
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers are looking for tips in the case of a wild steelhead illegally kept and left to waste on the North Umpqua River at Amacher Park in Winchester outside Roseburg on or about Thursday, May 8. ...
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is urging members and the public to contact their US House representatives and demand "that public land sales be removed from the budget reconciliation package."...
Columbia salmon managers approved two more weeks of spring Chinook fishing on the lower river below Bonneville and two more days in the mainstem reservoirs above there....
Columbia spring Chinook managers are proposing to reopen the big river below Bonneville Dam for 14 days and mainstem gorge pools above there for two days....
A bipartisan bill introduced by two Northwest senators that would create a new USFWS grant program to fund water infrastructure and waterfowl and migratory bird habitat in the Columbia River Basin and Washington and Oregon Coasts has Ducks Unlimited and other...
With the upriver spring Chinook run now expected to at least make forecast and catch balances available above and below Bonneville, Columbia salmon managers this week are exploring fishery options....
Northwest states and tribes are asking Congress to include at least $371 million in funding for salmon and steelhead hatchery production, facility maintenance, fish recovery, pinniped removal, management and more in the Columbia watershed in the next federal budget, a request...
Last Saturday, over 300 people including 185 young anglers participated in a union-organized fishing event near Tri-Cities that also saw all the kiddos go home with a free rod and reel....
I’m very interested in the folks who make critter work a professional career, and so I was very excited to read Scott McCorquodale’s new book Chasing Wildlife Secrets: A Biologist’s Journey about his life and times as a Washington wildlife researcher....
