Oregon and Washington salmon managers extended Chinook retention in the Columbia Gorge pools through the end of the year during a conference call today. Season had been scheduled to close in mid-October....
Late September and early October 2023 fall Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
Nearly two dozen bison are roaming a reservation in Northcentral Washington after tribal wildlife managers released them "to live in the wild" there today....
You may have heard me say this before, but with all of our deer hunting coverage, the October issue of Northwest Sportsman is one of my absolute favorites of the year to put together. Yet something’s been missing each fall, and...
Deer managers and biologists at the Washington and Oregon Departments of Fish and Wildlife provide their thoughts on this season’s blacktail, mule deer and whitetail prospects....
Get it done, WDFW! That would be my official public comment on the agency's proposal to allow anglers and hunters to use their phones for storing their licenses as well as electronically tagging big game and reporting their catches....
WDFW announces that winter crab season will open October 1 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, San Juan Islands, Admiralty Inlet, waters off Camano Island and in northern Hood Canal....
Elk hoof disease may be causing more widespread changes in the ungulates' bodies than was previously known and which might also be passed down to their calves, according to researchers looking into the debilitating condition striking wapiti in Southwest Washington and...
Public comment has opened on a federal plan to restore grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades, and the National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service are taking input on three alternatives....
A memorandum signed by President Biden today directs a host of federal agencies "to prioritize the restoration of healthy and abundant wild salmon, steelhead, and other native fish populations to the Columbia River Basin."...
A bill that would reauthorize funding hunter education and archery programs in schools passed the US House of Representatives in a near-unanimous vote yesterday and the Senate today, it has been reported....
WDFW announced that razor clam digging has been greenlighted for Long Beach, Twin Harbors and Copalis starting September 29, but marine toxin levels are postponing the season opener at Mocrocks....
After a two-and-a-half-month-long closure, the Quillayute and its tributaries such as the Bogachiel, Sol Duc and others will reopen to all fishing starting next Sunday, October 1....
Fall Chinook catches continue to increase in the Mid-Columbia's Hanford Reach, but managers say they won't be able to increase the limit to two kings a day after a runsize update "did not track as we had hoped."...