Two litigious environmental organizations are suing the National Marine Fisheries Service over the speed at which their request to list Olympic Peninsula steelhead under the Endangered Species Act is being considered....
The Washington legislature's House and Senate's Agriculture and Natural Resources Committees heard from staffers at the Ruckelshaus Center on their 76-page report looking at WDFW and the Fish and Wildlife Commission's governance structure, mandate and more this week....
Rest in peace, Jim Kujala, a Washington man once described in this magazine as an "elk hunter and sportsman-conservationist extraordinaire" for all of his years spent pursuing wapiti and volunteerism since age 16 with multiple state and federal wildlife and wildland...
Seven-day-a-week fishing for wild steelhead will open February 1 on portions of the upper Skagit and lower Sauk Rivers, WDFW announced this afternoon....
"One of the best forecasts" for Skagit-Sauk wild winter steelhead of recent years is out and state and tribal fishery managers are expected to announce rules and regulations for this season soon....
There are new wrinkles coming to smelt dipping in Washington's Cowlitz River, but if you've ever taken part in razor clam openers on the state's coast, you've got this....
Over $82 million in federal excise taxes on hunting and fishing gear and boat fuel is set to flow to Northwest fish and wildlife agencies for managing critters, producing fish, conserving land, educating hunters, and operating shooting ranges and wildlife disease...
Brant hunting will open as scheduled this month in Clallam, Pacific and Whatcom Counties, but with 1,000 fewer birds than the minimum count needed, season will remain closed in Skagit County, WDFW announced today....
WDFW lethally removed a pair of wolves from the Columbia Pack yesterday in response to a series of confirmed and probable calf depredations in the Blue Mountains foothills....
Western hunters and anglers will be breathing a temporary sigh of relief after the Supreme Court of the United States today declined to hear a state of Utah bid to wrest 18.5 million acres of public land away from the federal...
Governor Jay Inslee's waning-hours appointments to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission are blasted by the state chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers as undermining public trust, abandoning stakeholder input and transparency, contradicting recommendations in the recent Ruckelshaus report, and deepening...
Molly Linville, the Douglas County rancher and former federal wildlife biologist, will not be reappointed to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, a loss of a key vote for sportsmen....
The National Marine Fisheries Service reports on a new paper that explores the overlap of increasing numbers of voracious juvenile sablefish, also known as black cod, and young salmon off the Northwest Coast, theorizing that it may put Chinook and coho...
The preliminary outlook for Columbia fall Chinook in 2025 calls for a return to the mouth similar to and maybe even better than last year's actual run, which came in at 123 percent of forecast....
