Local sportfishing and boating leaders say they're "excited" that a seven-year-long state effort to get a federal permit to build a new boat launch on Puget Sound near Hansville could wrap up in the coming months....
Fishery managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) invite recreational anglers, conservation groups, and other interested members of the public to a virtual town hall, 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 24, to learn more about low coastal...
It wasn't a regular hunt given the location and mission, but ground-based marksmen helped cull 31 more mountain goats from Olympic National Park this fall, part of a multiyear effort to eradicate the species in Washington's rugged peninsula mountains....
As more sick bighorns are being reported on Cleman Mountain northwest of Yakima, WDFW has taken the very rare step of issuing more hunting permits for the herd there....
On November 6, 2020 an Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Trooper received information that a blacktail deer was killed and recovered on the Miller Woods Conservation Area property outside of McMinnville....
WDFW is providing more details on what sparked last Friday afternoon's announcement that the popular Hoodsport Hatchery Zone would close to sport chum salmon fishing as of today....
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is asking for public comment on the latest draft of its revised Hatchery and Fishery Reform Policy (C-3619)....
Fishery managers estimate that the 2020 fall chum run is about one-third of the way through normal run timing while the hatchery has only achieved 10 percent of broodstock needs....
Washington's ocean beaches will remain closed to razor clam harvest until at least December after test results on razor clams dug at Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Kalaloch and Copalis indicate levels of domoic acid that exceed the threshold (20 parts per...
The government alleges that the two parties discharged fill material into wetlands, an oxbow of the Skykomish River, and a perennial stream without obtaining the required permits....