Author: Andy Walgamott

WDFW will award 125 surplus elk and 2,413 surplus deer multiseason tags in sequential order to hunters who put in for April's drawing but were't selected....

A Northeast Washington woman caught the new pending state and world record tiger trout, topping the high mark her son set just last year at the same lake – and by almost 3 pounds!...

Three wolves were shot at in Northeast Washington last month while chasing cattle or interacting with a guard dog, with at least two of the animals killed....

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission approved an emergency conservation hatchery program for Coquille River fall Chinook after returns have fallen sharply in recent years....

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission steered around a petition that would have expanded the list of species that can be salvaged off the state's roads as well as legalized allowing citizens to dispatch vehicle-struck critters....

Parties to a long-running lawsuit over federal Columbia River system hydropower operations have agreed to another stay of litigation so they can continue working toward a long-term solution that recovers the region's salmon and steelhead and more....

Idaho Fish and Game commissioners voted to allow hunting, fishing and trapping in a 36-square-mile wildlife preserve near Bonners Ferry, a mountain valley home to "nearly all big and small game species in the Panhandle" and "a variety of trout species."...

Washington fish and wildlife officers report lethally removing an adult black bear near where a jogger was attacked Wednesday morning in central Whatcom County....

Washington wildlife managers report an outbreak of adenovirus hemorrhagic disease in deer near Goldendale, where the first known AHD infection in the state occurred in 2017....

Late July 2022 catch stats for Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon and walleye on the Lower Columbia, the Hanford Reach and select Southwest Washington tributaries....

Oregon state wildlife troopers report on the successful prosecution of two Western Oregon men who pled guilty to a total of eight counts of failure to register as an outfitter/guide and were sentenced to pay fines and restitution, with one also...

WDFW announces that Area 9 hatchery Chinook retention will close beginning Friday, August 5, while there won't be another king opener in Area 7 as harvest quotas in both parts of Puget Sound are essentially expected to be filled....

Salmon, steelhead, trout and bass fishing will be open under normal permanent regulations starting Aug. 15 on the Deschutes River from Moody Rapids upstream to Pelton Dam in the Deschutes River. ...

Following withering pushback from hunting and other conservation organizations, the outdoor press and more, five Republican Congressman have now withdrawn their consponsorship from a bill that put the highly regarded Pittman-Robertson Act in the crossfire of the culture war over guns....

A 4.86-pound silvergray rockfish caught late last month off the Washington coast by an Edmonds angler established the state record for the species....

At a time of changing theories in fish and wildlife management and conservation and the funding thereof, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has a new senior natural resource policy advisor and hunters and anglers as well as close watchers of WDFW and...