Category: Editors Blog

One hit the North Coast, one the South -- and the fins and fur flew....

In a nutshell, the predictions call for the largest run in 40 years back to Drano, biggest run in seven years back to the Wind and second largest in 33 years to the Klickitat, glorious news forplug-pulling, prawn-dragging springer fiends....

Pop quiz – tell me what flaming nature lover sent a U.S. Navy gunboat to protect fur seals from sealers on a remote island in the Bering Sea, the U.S. Marines to protect nesting shorebirds on an equally remote Pacific atoll?...

Forecasts for a trio of Southwest Washington rivers were revealed today, and the news is improved if you're a Cowlitz or Lewis River angler....

A joint state-tribal-federal panel is forecasting a run of 470,000 springers to the Columbia next year, which, if it actually comes in, would be the largest on record....

We may see a bigger run of fall kings to the Columbia River in 2010, but perhaps only half as many silvers....

It was a week ago today that we landed the newest hunter/angler in Team Walgamott, Kiran Sky....

Well, it sure as hell is November, this pounding rain is telling me, and how better to kill time when the rivers are out than with a book? Well, there is also waterfowling, but work with me....

Terry Cairns headed out elk hunting in early November and unexpectedly came back with five horses....

What happens when an editor gets a mess of elk hunting photos? He dreams about elk....

Ranchers and others in Okanogan County let their feelings be known on wolves in Washington at the first draft-management-plan meeting held in a county where a pack actually exists....

As world attention focuses on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, another German wall comes to my mind -- a hunter's in the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber....

16-hour shifts, 22-hour shifts, 'round-the-clock watches. Exhausted Fish & Wildlife officers curled up on the hard floor back at HQ. 120 citations issued in just 9 days by five guys. Vehicles impounded. Rifles seized. Dead deer taken away. A suspect hauled...

"I'm having a crow problem," a friend of mine recently emailed me. ...

What happens when you call up fishing or hunting guides during the day? You connect with them while they're on the water or in the field. And sometimes you get them while they're fighting a fish, or, well, we'll just let...

The eighth of 12 meetings taking public comment on Washington’s draft wolf management plan will be held tonight in Seattle at REI’s flagship store, 222 Yale Ave. N. Meanwhile, this morning the Peninsula Daily News previews the issue for a meeting...