Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission is meeting this Thursday through Saturday in Anacortes and will receive updates on the state's wolf population, Skagit elk issues, land acquisitions and comanager hatchery policy, and the Wildlife Committee will pick a new chair and...
There's a growing consensus among fish and wildlife experts that the wolverine spotted along the Lower Columbia near Portland last week may have in fact been something of a smelt whisperer....
After coming ever so close to being included in the federal budget last December, the bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act has again been introduced in Congress, and that has fish and wildlife advocates applauding it and the $1.4 billion that would...
Oregon smelt managers announced a seven-hour dip on the lower Sandy River this Thursday afternoon and evening. A 2023 Oregon angling license is required....
Oregon State Police troopers report that a 69-year-old Glendale man has been sentenced for multiple wildlife and trespassing violations in a case stemming from an elk decoy operation in November 2020....
Three more Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners received do-confirm recommendations from a Senate committee, wrapping up this year's hearings for all nine members....
Oregon fish and wildlife managers are adding details about the Union County man who received 10 days in jail – "more ... than we typically see in fish and wildlife cases" – for killing and wasting a bull elk last fall....
There will be no sturgeon retention season there this year, but Washington health officials are matching a Lower Columbia consumption advisory issued by Oregon authorities last fall due to PCB and mercury levels in the big river between Bonneville and Buoy...
Steven Parker, the ninth and final Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission member to appear this year before a state Senate committee, did so this afternoon, explaining his journey to the panel and taking questions from lawmakers....
As the Northwest's foremost – read: self-appointed; also: only – chronicler of weird wandering wildlife, I'd have to give this week's galactically gone-astray Gulo gulo a 12/10, with bonus points awarded it for choosing to be seen by anglers. Nobody, and...
A wolverine was sighted by two people who were fishing on the Columbia River near Portland on the morning of Monday, March 20, the first confirmed report of a wolverine outside of the Wallowa Mountains in over 30 years, says ODFW...
Federal overseers have approved a new long-term plan to allow Washington and tribal comanagers to hold late winter and spring steelhead fisheries on the Skagit and Sauk Rivers when enough return and WDFW has opened a Saturday-Wednesday season starting March 25....
Razor clam digging is finally opening at Washington's Long Beach, starting March 23, as marine toxin levels have declined enough for state managers to open harvest....
Northwest turkey managers Sarah Garrison and Mikal Cline share their takes on what Washington and Oregon hunters can expect once season rolls around come April. ...
