Columbia spring Chinook managers are preliminarily considering an initial fishery below Bonneville that would run seven days a week through Friday, April 5, and provide an overall kept catch of 4,424 of the year's first salmon....
Even as the Boone & Crockett Club applauds USFWS's reaffirmation late last week that gray wolves in the Northern Rockies "faces no threat of extinction," the hunter organization questions the feds' proposal to create a national recovery plan....
WDFW says it has voluntarily stood down most staffers who work in, on or near water following an inspection by the state Department of Labor and Industries yesterday....
Federal wildlife overseers today denied petitions to list gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains and the Western United States, stating that the predators "do not meet the definition of an endangered species or a threatened species."...
Wildlife managers in British Columbia report that chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in two deer in the Kootenay region, a first for the province....
ODFW is putting out more information on the cow moose that was poached in Southeast Oregon in mid-January, and reports that a statewide hunters organization is offering a $2,000 reward for info on the illegal killing and wasting of the animal....
Continuing a federal prey increase program that's been providing more hatchery Chinook for starving southern resident killer whales will have "medium to high benefits" for the Northwest's iconic marine mammals over the short and long term....
WDFW shellfish managers announced a Feb. 6-12 razor clam dig on the coast today, as well as pencilled in three sets of March digs, including two during the morning hours....
The briefing included updates on ocean conditions, the challenges of holding mixed-stock fisheries, straightjacketing Stillaguamish Chinook payback provisions in the new Puget Sound harvest management plan, a look back at what (the hell?!?) happened during last summer's fisheries, and a chance...
Northwest wildlife managers are monitoring a disease outbreak in bighorn sheep at the northern end of Hells Canyon and are asking the public to report any sick or dead sheep they see....
ODFW announces that the two-rod validation will again be in effect for spring Chinook and steelhead on the lower Willamette beginning March 1 and above the falls starting May 1....
Ducks Unlimited is calling attention to World Wetlands Day and its tie-in with human wellbeing on the international event's 53rd anniversary, while the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is touting recent "conservation highs" it was part of as it begins its 40th...
Washington fishery managers will talk about the scope and development of a new policy around harvest management for native, non-hatchery-origin cutthroat and rainbow trout at an upcoming virtual meeting....
A Washington legislative committee gave a do-pass recommendation to a bill that aims to amend the state constitution to enshrine the rights to hunt, fish, forage and more....
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers need the public's help to identify whomever illegally killed and wasted a cow moose in the southeast corner of the state in mid-January, as well as four deer last fall in Tillamook County....
A pair of environmental groups are threatening to sue federal, state and local fishery managers over alleged ESA violations related to Lower Columbia hatchery programs....