Yesterday, the federal government backed out of a "landmark" deal aimed at restoring salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia Basin. But the work is far from dead....
The federal government is pulling out of a deal that paused a long-running court case over Columbia River hydropower operations and their impacts on listed salmon and steelhead stocks and which might have led to the breaching of four dams on...
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited are blasting a US Senate committee's proposal that they say would force the sale of up to 3 million acres of public land in the West, including potentially in...
WDFW announces it has finalized the purchase of a four-lane boat ramp and trailer and vehicle parking lot at Sekiu, an acquisition funded by state lawmakers and approved by the Fish and Wildlife Commission earlier this year....
As Washington hunters sat on pins and needles earlier this week prodding WDFW's special permits website in hopes of seeing they'd been drawn, I got a backdoor glimpse into how the agency awards the tags....
Early June 2025 catch stats for Chinook, steelhead, shad and walleye on the Lower Columbia, lower Willamette and select Southwest Washington tributaries....
A new study found that coastal cutthroat trout are nearly as sensitive to a tire preservative byproduct that gets washed into streams during rainstorms as coho salmon are....
Ahead of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission's final decision late next week, ODFW has posted proposed wild fall Chinook regs for 2025's fishery, including closing most of the mainstem Umpqua and decreasing the Nehalem limit to two for the season,...
Late spring 2025 spring Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon, shad and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Willamette River below the falls....
Ed Johnstone, chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, says Western Washington tribes are seeing impacts from federal funding cuts to programs supporting salmon management....
A Northeast Washington wildlife biologist lays the problem of chronic cougar conflicts and political battles around the big cats in the state at the feet of a 1996 ballot initiative that sidelined hound hunters....
The second of ODFW's three Free Fishing Weekends of the year is coming up June 7-8, a time when you can catch trout, go crabbing, or attend a family fishing event without a license....
ODFW says anglers can now permanently use spears, spear guns and bait to help remove smallmouth bass from a coastal salmon stream where the bass were illegally introduced....
Late May 2025 spring Chinook, steelhead and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries, and the lower end of the Willamette system....
The abundance of four listed Columbia salmon and steelhead runs improved in 2024 relative to two years beforehand, and more stocks are on the positive side of a biannual ledger than the past two check-ins, but other listed threatened or endangered...
