New year, new maps showing important migratory corridors of Evergreen State big game animals – mule deer in the Central Washington and whitetails and elk in the northeast corner....
With hatchery winter steelhead returns "well short of broodstock needs," state managers are closing the Nooksack River system to all fishing as of this Saturday, January 7....
Domestic goats and sheep will be banned from WDFW wildlife areas in Central and Southeast Washington starting in February to reduce the likelihood of the flocks transmitting a deadly disease to wild herds of bighorn sheep....
Calling it "the most difficult state job to excel at," the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission gave WDFW Director Kelly Susewind an 8 percent raise this afternoon, his first outside of cost of living increases over the four and a half...
From a record sockeye run, state record catches and record bull elk to commission controversies, Congressional craziness and the dam removal front, from cougars with a taste for wolves and selfish shellfish swine to a very wayward moose, wandering walleye and...
Remember the good ol’ days of late fall and early winter steelheading on Southwest Washington’s Cowlitz? They’re a lot closer to coming back than you may realize. State and utility managers are “working to shift” the lower river’s stock “to produce...
Hunting organizations are celebrating Congress's passage of a record $50 million for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act program and $70 million annually via the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act for detecting the incurable deer family disease and monitoring...
Supporters of the Recovering America's Wildlife Act expressed a mix of disappointment, appreciation and hope to eventually pass the funding mechanism for fish and wildlife species in greatest need of conservation in the future after it was left out of Congress's...
Skagit system steelhead managers are forecasting enough winter-runs back to provide sport and tribal fisheries and have submitted plans to open portions of the North Cascades system later this winter....
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation shares details how $3.3 million in grant funding from it and numerous federal, state and private partners will go to Oregon habitat conservation projects, elk research and to support mentored hunts and shooting clubs....
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers say they have charged a 21-year-old Coos Bay-area man with killing and wasting three young blacktail bucks early last year....
Oregon's Fish and Wildlife Commission met late last week and made decisions on coyote contests, fish and wildlife management agreement with the Cow Creek Band, and 2023 marine bag limits....
A federal judge this week remanded part of a Southeast Alaska commercial Chinook fishing biological opinion back to the National Marine Fisheries Service to correct, and kept another piece in place....