A highly litigious environmental cadre has come out against a sweeping plan to breach four lower Snake dams, calling the concept "disastrous" as it would bar them from lobbing lawsuits over the river and salmon for multiple decades....
It was 40 years ago today that I was sure the Germans had invaded. I heard three muffled blasts that Sunday morning and ran outside with my BB gun to take up a position to plink at the panzers as they...
As spring Chinook swim up rivers elsewhere in the Northwest, another local species you may not have heard of is skinnying into Lake Washington tributaries on its own spawning run. ...
Washington walleye anglers are concerned about a study on the mid-Columbia and what it might mean for what's become a thriving, destination fishery....
Washington's fishing season got off to a soggy start that turned windy by middday, but neither stopped tens of thousands of anglers from enjoying the ceremonial opener at lakes across the Evergreen State -- not to mention catch their own dinner....
It was a summer somewhere in the mid- to late 1980s and my dad, sisters and I were camping along the Elwha. After we took our ganders at the dams and reservoirs, and Olympic National Park's trees and mountains, I decided...
With a Washington angling closure protest in the works for Seattle this weekend, there are also potential developments in Olympia that bear watching....
If it had been a normal spring day, they might have all been down at Drano Lake, trolling and casting for spring Chinook. Instead, anglers in dozens upon dozens of boats circled in the waters of the Columbia near Tri-Cities as...
Governor Jay Inslee yesterday rejected a call from nearly two dozen Republican state lawmakers to consider putting sportfishing on the list of allowed essential outdoor activities in Washington under his “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order aimed at helping slow the spread...
With Washington's finances taking a hit from the COVID-19 outbreak, Governor Jay Inslee slashed the recently passed supplemental operating budget by hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as vetoed several WDFW-related provisos. ...
WDFW's director expressed confidence that state staffers would be able to mass mark most if not all hatchery Chinook, coho and steelhead smolts even as fishing for returning adults is on pause in Washington through at the very least April 8...
Survive the Sound, the fun, free online game that tracks virtual equivalents of real winter steelhead smolts as they try to migrate out of the inland sea, is back and new this spring features fish from a third river....
Mule deer and other critters are taking to a recently renovated path underneath a busy North-central Washington highway, providing a glimpse of how more wildlife fencing and crossings could protect wildlife and drivers in a high roadkill location....
WDFW leaders say that yesterday's budget proposals from state lawmakers get them closer to full funding in the short term and that they will work with representatives and senators towards that end in the coming weeks....