This is the second fee bill WDFW has floated since 2017 and Crosier is optimistic this one will do better than the last one. "It's getting a lot more positive reach, at least in Olympia," she notes, adding that some Republicans...
Washington lawmakers continue to introduce fish- and wildlife-related bills, and several of note were dropped this week, some more serious than others....
If Washington's legislature is back in town, so is the Olympia Outsider™! Well, mostly anyway, what with the restraining order and all, but boy have lawmakers been busy so far at the state capitol!...
The idea that we can save Puget Sound's starving orcas by just stopping salmon fishing for a few years once again reared its misinformed head, this time in a big-city newspaper piece....
A disabled Lake Roosevelt angler and local officials are concerned that access to a good fishing hole just above Grand Coulee Dam might be reduced or even lost entirely....
Congratulations, Jason Bauer, you’ve died and gone to heaven. True, heaven will look a lot like the state fairgrounds in midwinter, but on the flip side there are scones – not to mention a giant walleye tank and the smells of...
There were the changes at the helms, court battles, legislative battles and more, and here we wrap up 2018 with a recap of notable news from October through December. ...
If it wasn’t the plight of orcas and mountain caribou, it was the fangs of cougars and wolves that were in the news — along with the flight of mountain goats and pangs of grizzly bear restoration....
As 2018 draws to a close, we're taking our annual look back at some of the biggest fish and wildlife stories the Northwest saw during the past year....
Federal legislation expanding sea lion removals in more of the Columbia and many of its tributaries became law yesterday, capping a multi-year, multi-stakeholder, bipartisan effort to reduce pinniped predation on ESA-listed salmon and steelhead as well as other stocks in the...
Washington salmon fishermen and others were furious to learn that as many as 6.2 million Chinook fry died last Friday when a state hatchery lost power during a windstorm and a backup generator failed to start up....
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is touting an "unprecedented investment" of $1.1 billion to recover orcas and their key feedstock -- Chinook -- in his just-released 2019-21 budget proposal....
The U.S. House today passed the Senate's Columbia sea lion bill and it now heads to President Trump's desk for his signature, according to Northwest lawmakers....
The U.S. Senate has passed a key bill that would make it easier for state and tribal managers to protect ESA-listed salmon and steelhead in the Lower Columbia from California sea lions....
An editorial in today's Lewiston Tribune asking organizations that are forcing Idaho to close steelheading as of this Saturday to have their lawyers "stand down" for the good of the fish and fish advocacy never had a chance....
WDFW's new director Kelly Susewind fielded more than three dozen questions about salmon, hatcheries, sea lions, orcas, wolves, increasing fishing and hunting opportunities, and more during an hour-and-a-half-long webinar last night....