Category: HEADLINES

Overnight the 2024 Columbia spring Chinook forecast popped up and it shows that state managers expect 187,400 of the scrumptious salmon back to the mouth of the big river. ...

A spate of poaching across Oregon this fall has a hunting magazine editor and state official hopping mad and reminding the public that cash rewards or preference points for the controlled draw are on tap for tipsters who help crack these...

A WDFW carnivore science panel fleshed out detailed information on Washington's bear and cougar population, research, management and the response, if any, to recent hunting regulation changes for the Fish and Wildlife Commission this morning....

Oregon wildlife troopers are asking for public help identifying who shot and left a Umatilla County mule deer buck and three Lincoln County spike and cow elk to waste this fall....

Federal overseers say that a threatened or endangered listing "may be warranted" for spring Chinook in the Chehalis, Quinault, Hoh and Quillayute systems, or alternatively all kings in those rivers....

Oregon wildlife troopers are highlighting three recent Baker County poaching cases, one involving a collared wolf, the second a bighorn ram that was shot and only its head was taken, and the third a pair of bear cubs unlawfully shot and...

A pair of Western Washington critter crossing projects have received federal grants, the US Department of Transportation announced today....

Washington wildlife managers are recommending that the Fish and Wildlife Commission deny a petition seeking to reverse bear and cougar rules approved in 2019 and 2020 – and suggest that much more is actually at stake given what the petitioners really...

A deep dive into the future of hunting and wildlife management in the Northwest and across America and our place in that wrapped up this week with a toolkit for sportsmen to get and stay involved in charting a broadly supported...

With more mud and silt surely set to flow in the coming rainy days and weeks, the Army Corps of Engineers posted a Q&A on the federal court injunction that has led to deep drawdowns at two of its Willamette Valley...

Following yesterday afternoon's press release announcing this winter's Washington Coast steelhead seasons, WDFW has also posted the official fishing rule change notices for Willapa Bay, Grays Harbor, Queets, Quinault, Hoh and Quillayute systems....

Three elk killed and left wholly or partially to waste in Northcentral Oregon the past two months have state wildlife troopers asking the public for tips to help solve the cases, according to news releases out today....

Just as was previewed earlier this week, there will be more boat angling opportunities on the Washington Coast this winter steelhead season, but the Grays Harbor system will be closed to all fishing as of Friday, December 1 – though perhaps...

Pro-wolf groups are yet again appealing to Washington Governor Jay Inslee to order WDFW to begin rulemaking around "enforceable" wolf-livestock conflict management standards after the state Fish and Wildlife Commission declined to do so in late October....

Oregon wildlife troopers are asking for help identifying a person of interest in the unlawful killing and wastage of a large bull elk near Scappoose overnight. ...

There's a fair amount of reporting out this morning about apparently not-so-secret leaked draft agreements on the future of the lower Snake River dams, hydropower operations and salmon and steelhead restoration in the Columbia Basin....