The numbers of sockeye migrating into the Upper Columbia has dropped off for the year. Boats averaged less than a salmon harvested per boat, ~13 hours per fish. ...
Governor Jay Inslee has paused work on an environmental impact statement for a flood-control project on the upper Chehalis River and directed that a no-dam alternative be developed....
The summer heat can make fishing tough in places. But if you’re flexible about where you fish and what you fish for, there is still plenty of opportunity:...
Two King County residents and one from Ferry County had challenged summer 2019's Old Profanity Territory Pack kill order and development of 2017's guiding Wolf-Livestock Protocols, saying it should have undergone State Environmental Policy Act review....
WDFW Director Kelly Susewind this morning authorized removing a member of the Wedge Pack which has killed at least two calves and injured 10 others in Northeast Washington since early May. ...
Twenty-one teams of the "most highly qualified", WDFW- and NPS-vetted volunteer outdoorsmen have been chosen from a large pool of applicants to help lethally remove mountain goats in Olympic National Park in early fall....
Hunting and fishing organizations and others are stoked about today's passage of the Great American Outdoors Act by a 310-107 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, sending this "historic" legislation to President Trump for his signature....
Federal and state wildlife and land managers will begin the final round of moving mountain goats off the Olympic Peninsula and over to the Cascades later this month, with lethal removals scheduled to begin afterwards....
Sec 1 (Bonneville) – 39 bank anglers kept one Chinook, two steelhead and released two Chinook, seven steelhead and eight sockeye. 2 boats/3 rods kept two Chinook, one steelhead and released two steelhead. ...
Catch of black, blue, and deacon rockfish is projected to be under the annual quotas. Because these species make up the majority of catch in the bottomfish fishery, the bag limit can be increased, providing anglers with additional harvest opportunity....
On June 28, 2020 Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Troopers investigated the report of a spike elk that was discovered on Weyerhaeuser property located off of Clear Creek Rd. near Timber Road in Columbia County. ...
Running into friends during happy hour or at a barbeque can lead to memorable laughs and great stories. Running into folks in the woods while bow hunting for deer may not be as welcome....