ODFW reports that the Gardiner man accused of breaking into a coastal salmon hatchery earlier this week will also be charged with a class C felony for unlawful taking of Chinook and could be banned from ever having a fishing license...
Federal wildlife and land managers made final their decision to reintroduce grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act today....
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says they arrested a 22-year-old local Oregon Coast man in connection with the poisoning of 15,000 to 20,000 young hatchery Chinook on Monday back at the scene of the crime a day later....
Thousands of young hatchery fall Chinook salmon died at a rearing site on Oregon's Central Coast, the apparent victims of a deliberate poisoning late last weekend....
A minimum of 260 wolves roamed Washington at the end of 2023, a 20 percent jump over the previous count and marking a 15th straight year of population growth....
A deeply, starkly, bitterly divided Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has directed WDFW staffers to develop a slate of cougar rulemaking proposals to get in place ahead of the start of hunting season this September....
Emily Lian, a 17-year-old Oregon artist, took top honors in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest with a gorgeous rendering of a king eider....
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted 2024-25 game bird regs, updated its recruitment plan for a new ODFW director and acquired 1,100 more acres for the state's Minam River Wildlife Area....
A pair of environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against federal, state and county officials over alleged Endangered Species Act violations related to salmon hatchery programs on the Lower Columbia....
Lower Columbia spring Chinook anglers caught 60 percent of the initial quota of upriver-origin hatchery kings available in the fishery that ran through April 11, according to an update out late this afternoon from state salmon managers....
Oregon State University researchers report on a study that measured reproductive fitness of first-generation wild-born spring Chinook compared to hatchery kings spawning on the gravel in an Upper Willamette river, finding the former produced more offspring than the latter....
Later this month, ODFW will tag a total of 200 wild and hatchery spring Chinook at Winchester Dam and then use telemetry to learn more about their movements and behavior. Caught tagged fish must be released, the agency states....
ODFW's annual wolf report is out and the agency says there was a minimum of 178 wolves in Oregon at the end of 2023 – the same as in December 2022 but also not counting 10 taken to Colorado – and...