Author: Andy Walgamott

State health officials are advising anglers and the general public not to eat any largemouth from two big Seattle-area fisheries. ...

Oregon wildlife managers are putting out more information about the deaths of two black bears found in trees near Medford in October in hopes of finding the perpetrators....

Governor Jay Inslee's proposed 2023-25 budgets would "solidify" WDFW funding with an $88 million increase for operations and a $190 million, largest-ever, boost to capital projects, according to a message sent out to staffers yesterday....

In the wake of this season's impact-eating fall Chinook bites at Buoy 10 and subsequent Columbia closures, partial reopeners and further shutdowns, ODFW and WDFW fishery managers have posted an angler survey as they consider "ways to reduce the likelihood of...

Wildlife biologists from Idaho and Washington will capture 55 bighorn sheep in three Hells Canyon herds later this month as part of ongoing "research to monitor health status and to evaluate strategies for managing disease" in the animals....

The latest WDFW catch stats for three Southwest Washington fall salmon and winter steelhead rivers showed goose eggs for 36 bank anglers....

Columbia salmon managers expect a larger overall return of spring Chinook to the big river and its many tributaries next year, some 307,800 hatchery and wild fish....

"Picture yourself in a boat on a river ..." OK, so that's not exactly how WDFW worded one of its latest job announcements, but the agency is looking for two full-time recreational steelhead test fishing technicians to work Washington Coast systems...

Cougars bagged another Washington wolf, this one a member of the border-straddling Grouse Flats Pack of Asotin County....

More collared Blue Mountains elk calves have survived to this point of 2022 than last year, but cougars are again taking the lion's share among Southeast Washington's burgeoning predator guild....

Seattle Boat Show organizers say they will hold 22 fishing, crabbing and shrimping seminars at the big February 3-11, 2023 shindig, including slow-pitch jigging for bottomfish, Puget Sound squidding, maximing electronics and more....

There's a moose on the loose at Mt. Rainier, the first ever recorded there, according to national park officials....

WDFW is advising waterfowlers and others not to move sick or dead geese, ducks or other birds due to a suspected North Sound avian influenza outbreak that has killed over 1,150 birds in this important wintering grounds this fall....

At least 913 chums have been collected on the Skagit River this fall as state and tribal managers aim to increase numbers of the struggling stock of late-returning salmon that once provided important fisheries....

A Southwest Washington man who helped educate "hundreds of new hunters" as well as served as a WDFW Master Hunter for more than a dozen years has resigned from both posts....

Washington Department of Natural Resources has published a map of state lands that could be available for wind and solar energy projects following input from WDFW, tribes and others....