In a 4-3 vote this afternoon, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission accepted one of six spring black bear permit hunting petitions and moved to "initiate rulemaking for a 2022 season to begin soon and include a final Commission decision at...
Oregon wildlife troopers ask for help identifying who is responsible for the unlawful take of four pronghorns in Harney County east of Malheur Lake....
A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife regional manager who self-reported mistakenly shooting a whitetail buck with a rifle in a unit only open at the time for archery hunting confronted the incident head on during an agency virtual open house...
A sweeping if also contentious salmon riparian habitat protection and restoration bill drew support from a regional recreational fishing organization, tribal leaders and others during a hearing in Olympia this morning, but also strong opposition from farmers and some counties....
ODFW announces that anglers with the two-rod validation will be able to deploy a pair of poles on the lower Willamette River beginning March 1 during what is expected to be a decent spring Chinook run....
"I might not get to comment!" That was the message Brian Lynn sent me this morning as the clock ticked down on open public input before the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission....
Commercial salmon and steelhead fishing gear that has been banned for nearly 90 years in Washington could be legalized under a bill that had a public hearing today....
WDFW announces that blackmouth fishing on Seattle's Marine Area 10 will pause starting this weekend to preserve fish for later in the season due to rising encounter rates that govern the fishery....
IDFG reports that two more animals have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a whitetail doe in the same area as four other cases, and a cow elk northeast of White Bird....
Extremist environmentalists on an all-out blitz to "reform" WDFW are jumping on the chance to label an agency manager with a derogatory term after he allegedly committed a big game hunting violation in mid-November and said he quickly owned up to...
There won't be a Skagit-Sauk catch-and-release wild winter steelhead fishery as the forecasted return is too low to open the popular season on the North Cascade rivers....
WDFW says that with the fifth lowest count of brant geese on the Skagit Delta, hunting there will only be open for two days, but outlines opportunities in Whatcom, Clallam and Pacific Counties....