Spring Chinook anglers will be able to use a second rod on the Willamette starting as early as March 1 below the falls and beginning April 16 above there with ODFW's $28 two-rod validation....
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is spotlighting its 2022 conservation highlights, including 20 projects in 10 states protecting 91,271 acres, opening/improving access to 116,747 acres of public land in seven states, funding 186 habitat and wildlife management projects, and more....
The Corps of Engineers and WDFW are looking for public comment on a proposal to remove the Yakima River mouth's Bateman Island Causeway, which could aid outmigrating salmon and steelhead smolts and returning adults, while changing the bass fishery there....
The passage last week of Larry Cassidy is sparking warm memories of a man and angler who dedicated decades upon decades of his life to working for Northwest fish and wildlife....
No, they didn't turn to little kids at bus stops, but when wolves chewed up most all the deer in one area, they did in fact have to look around for a new food source. They found it in a pretty...
Scout, a year-and-a-half-old black Lab, was introduced today as the second conservation K-9 that will be helping to protect Oregon's fish and wildlife....
Sturgeon retention will close in the coming days on The Dalles and John Day Pools and the DFWs' Columbia managers stuck with a staff recommendation to not reopen the Bonneville Pool for a crack at the last 75 keepers in the...
Calling all citizen-science steelheaders. WDFW is looking for anglers to help collect scales off winter-runs they catch on a number of Southwest Washington rivers this season "for the purpose of assessing age composition" of the fish....
Quick, name the two Northwest counties with the ignominious distinction of having the most residents cited during last year's smelt opener on the Cowlitz River – the one in which 2,800 pounds worth of overlimits of the ESA-listed fish were seized...
WDFW announces that Copalis Beach will open for razor clam digging on evening low tides on January 21, 23 and 25, but other Washington Coast beaches will remain closed due to unsafe marine toxin levels....
Has anybody new been appointed to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission in the last 15 minutes?!?! That's a question I find myself asking about 45,000 times a day as I hurry over to Governor Inslee's Recent Appointments and WDFW's Commission...
WDFW reports that a bar and grill in Kettle Falls has been fined $10,000 after its owner "made several fishing trips across the border, bringing back his fish to be served at the restaurant without necessary permits, paperwork, or commercial licenses."...
When you're dealing with gillnets, you're fundamentally dealing with a bunch of knotty holes. You'll catch a lot of fish, but some might just swim through or around the mesh. That's more or less what lawmakers and WDFW were left...
While brant goose hunts will continue as scheduled in Clallam, Pacific and Whatcom Counties, with numbers at their second lowest mark over a 71-year survey period in Skagit County there will be no season there this winter, WDFW announces....
An ESA listing may be warranted for Oregon Coast and far Northern California Chinook, an initial federal review has found, kicking off a deeper dive into the state of Oncorhynchus tshawytscha populations from just south of the Columbia all the way...
