A program that as of December 2023 has provided $1.8 billion in federal money and leveraged another $2.2 billion for almost 16,000-plus projects that have restored, created or set aside nearly 1.2 million acres of habitat and reopened 12,000 miles of...
A bill that would require Washington salmon and steelhead anglers to once again buy an endorsement to fish the Columbia River and its tributaries passed out of the state House of Representatives today on a 53-44 vote....
That viral pic of a large pack of wolves gathered around a bear they supposedly just killed on a road near Diamond Lake in Oregon's Southern Cascades? ...
Federal fish, wildlife and land overseers are proposing to change standing rules that include the habitats of listed species in take protections and balance conservation with extractive uses on vast swaths of public ground in the West. ...
The long-awaited 2025 Puget Sound spot shrimp season has just been announced by WDFW and will open May 21 in most areas, though Marine Areas 10 (outside Elliott Bay), 11 and 13 will be closed due to low abundance....
Season dates, permit levels, and information on new regulations around bear and cougar hunting, baiting, chronic wasting disease requirements and more are detailed in the 2025 Washington Big Game Hunting Regulations pamphlet, now available from WDFW....
WDFW is detailing tentative 2025-26 Washington salmon fisheries, including bonus pinks in most inner Puget Sound fisheries, Skykomish summer Chinook, Skagit-Baker sockeye, ocean kings and coho, and Buoy 10 fall fish, among others. The proposals now go to NMFS for final...
Early to mid-April 2025 spring Chinook and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries including That One....
Oregon's wolf population grew to a minimum of 204 wolves across the state at the end of 2024, an increase of 15 percent over the previous tally, according to the just-released annual report....
More details are emerging on Washington's newest Fish and Wildlife Commission member, as well as reformists' reaction to Governor Bob Ferguson's Monday appointments....
ODFW details potential new mule deer hunt unit names, changes to long-standing area boundaries, and why there may be slightly fewer tags on tap for the species during the 2026 season east of the Cascades. Final decision from the Fish and...
Fishing for hatchery spring Chinook will reopen on the Lower Columbia April 11-13 and 15-17, salmon managers at WDFW and ODFW decided this afternoon....
A New York Times article out this morning details how Chinook production at nearly a dozen hatcheries in Western Washington is said to be in “limbo” because cuts back in DC put a critical National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration staffer out...
The reviews continue to roll in on yesterday's pleasing appointments to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission – reaction from NWIFC, RMEF, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, former Commissioner Kim Thorburn, Chair Barbara Baker, Puget Sound Anglers state board, and Commissioner Molly...
