Hunters must buy and submit their 2021 spring black bear special hunt applications by midnight on Feb. 28. Hunts will occur in specific areas of western and eastern Washington....
Ocean salmon managers are forecasting an uptick in the numbers of Columbia fall Chinook out in the Pacific compared to the 2020 preseason prognostication, but fewer Sacramento and Klamath kings....
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is moving forward with a project at the Skagit Wildlife Area Island Unit to restore critical estuary habitat for struggling salmon populations. Historically, the site was a tidally influenced estuary that provided rearing...
One million dollars in federal funding has been awarded to a Washington state agency and a local tribe to acquire more land on the Stillaguamish Delta for restoration that will benefit fish and wildlife, part of $3.5 million just disbursed for...
Columbia smelt managers extended the research-level commercial fishery as a push of the oily fish entered the big river in recent days and rekindled hopes of a sport dipping opener on the Cowlitz as well....
Youth turkey hunters have a chance to win a one-day guided hunt (and an additional unguided day if needed) on the C2 Cattle Company Ranch during the April 10-11 Youth Turkey Weekend and the General Spring Turkey Season, April 15-May 31....
Columbia spring Chinook managers have approved a lower river season through April 4 with a new no-boat-fishing bubble around the mouth of the Cowlitz....
With Feb. 22-28 declared Invasive Species Awareness Week by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is pleased to announce that a new watercraft inspection Station will open near Cle Elum in mid-March. ...
Columbia spring Chinook fishery managers will discuss reopening the lower river for the first time in three years, but also instituting a new closure at the mouth of the Cowlitz as they set this year's initial seasons on Tuesday....
Lower Columbia mainstem from Bonneville to Astoria – 21 salmonid boats and 28 Washington bank rods were tallied during Saturday’s (2/20) effort count. ...
University of Idaho researchers are helping anglers and state fishery managers learn more about steelhead to better manage a renowned fishery that has had its ups and downs....
“Dramatic increases in smolt survival are needed to overcome the negative impacts of climate change for this threatened species.” So conclude salmon researchers about Snake River spring/summer Chinook in a paper published this week and who say that the “urgency is...
Despite a written assurance from WDFW's director that he wouldn't release steelhead smolts reared for a new Skykomish River hatchery program without final federal go-ahead, a highly litigious environmental group sued the agency last week anyway....
The Oregon State Police is requesting the public’s assistance to help identify the person(s) responsible for the unlawful taking of at least three mule deer and wasting two of those deer in Harney County....