Top state officials traded tense letters over Washington wolves earlier this month as one pressed his thumb on the scale and the other defended his agency's process in proposing to downlist the hot-button species....
Idaho fishery managers report receiving more pictures and reports of walleye being caught in Hells Canyon than all prior years, terming it "alarming" and "indicators that more walleye are coming, which is not good for salmon and steelhead."...
"We are thrilled to introduce the Protect Oregon's Wildlife campaign as a united front against poaching. Poaching threatens Oregon's fish and wildlife populations and undermines the collective ownership and enjoyment of our natural resources,” said campaign coordinator, Yvonne Shaw. “Members of...
Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission member Lorna Smith has resigned from a county planning commission as a result of a lawsuit over her dual roles on two appointive bodies....
Here we go again ... ? Some Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members appear to want to move sooner than later on tweaking black bear as well as cougar hunting regulations, a proposition that caused a notable tensing at a meeting...
WDFW announces that the lower end of the Snohomish will open two weeks earlier than scheduled for pinks and coho, but that fishing with eggs will be prohibited throughout the river....
WDFW announces that Marine Area 11, which shut down to all salmon fishing last month, will reopen August 9-31 for coho and pinks only, and only for fishing from shore....
When the editor's away, the news still happens. Such is the message from a full inbox on a Monday morning after a nice long camping trip the hell away from words and blogs and commissions and rule change notices....
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is set to make decisions on a memorandum of agreement with the Grand Ronde Tribe, the 2023-24 fishing regs and other matters in Salem on August 4....
Three West Coast tribes, including two from Puget Sound, are petitioning the federal government to prohibit the use of a tire additive that is known to kill coho and other Northwest salmon when it breaks down into a chemical compound and...
With Chinook observed in the Skykomish near Reiter Ponds and very limited allowable impacts on the stock this summer, WDFW is closing the river above Highway 2 to all fishing starting August 2....
All fishing on Oregon's North Umpqua and its tribs will be shut down starting Monday, July 31, due to a low return of wild summer steelhead, as well as water temperatures approaching 80 degrees....
