MD Johnson reports back from the banks of the Cowlitz on last Thursday's smelt dip, which was slower lower in the system and better toward Castle Rock, and what WDFW is looking for to be able to hold a second opener....
A 60-year-old woman was taken to the hospital after a cougar attack on a group of bicyclists in Western Washington's upper Snoqualmie Valley today and state game wardens lethally removed at least one cougar in the area, reports say....
It was bound to happen: After who knows how many thousands upon thousands upon thousands of WDFW emergency fishing rule change notices that have come across my desk over the years, at 5:09 p.m. PST this evening I received what appears...
Along with declaring southern resident orcas state endangered, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted survival guidelines that in part would enhance Chinook production where capacity and funding exists, as well as picked Davia Palmeri as ODFW interim director starting April...
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission did not make a decision today on the scope and timeline of beginning rulemaking around cougar hunting regulations, as had been scheduled, but will meet next month on emerging lion science....
Southwest Washington's Willapa National Wildlife Refuge grew by 2,366 acres last month, thanks to a land buy and transfer several years in the making and which will add public access and protect salmon streams....
Federal wildlife overseers report that three wolves were killed in southern Oregon late last December and that a $50,000 reward is being offered to help solve the crime. USFWS says that on December 29, the collars of two Gearhart Mountain Pack...
The long-term pause on litigation over Snake River dams proposed late last year was approved by a federal judge in Oregon today and that means joint state-tribal plans and US government commitments to Columbia Basin restoration will continue moving ahead....
The process may be a bit arcane to the lay reader, but WDFW is now seeking public comment on its official proposal to downlist gray wolves in Washington from state endangered to sensitive status....