Proposed Washington black bear and cougar hunting frameworks for the next two seasons will be sent out for public comment over the coming months following votes by the Fish and Wildlife Commission late this afternoon....
Oregon's groundfish limit will start off the year at four before switching to five July 1 after the Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted 2025 sport seasons at its meeting in Salem today....
With about 42 tabs open on my browser and the January 2025 issue's deadline actively starting to poke me a bit more seriously, I'm going to have to just pass along links to a number of Northwest fishing and hunting-related articles...
Columbia River fishery managers today reissued their 2025 spring Chinook forecast after identifying an error "in a spreadsheet that led to the display of incorrect" numbers in yesterday's release of the first predictions for next year's Northwest salmon runs....
Columbia River salmon managers have posted their 2025 spring and summer Chinook and sockeye forecasts for the system as well as comparisons to this year's predictions and actual returns....
Some 93,500 winter-runs that had been reared for release into the Washougal River are instead swimming around sprawling Banks Lake near Grand Coulee Dam, "adding diversity to an already dynamic fishery," the agency announced on a blog post today....
Following the release of a draft report on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission and its future, former member Kim Thorburn calls for three legislative fixes rather than moving WDFW under governor....
An independent Washington think tank's report raises more immediate questions about the state of the Fish and Wildlife Commission and its future than it does WDFW's mandate to protect critters and provide harvest opportunities as well as how good it does...
Outgoing Washington Governor Jay Inslee is reaffirming the state's commitment to salmon recovery in the Columbia Basin even after his term wraps up in the coming weeks....
This winter's Washington Coast steelhead seasons have been announced, with a number of Grays Harbor systems reopening for fishing after last year's closure....
Willamette Valley hunters are chipping in to increase the reward for info on a pair of blacktail bucks illegally shot with crossbows in Corvallis this fall. “Someone knows who did this, and we want to encourage that person to do the...
A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife hatchery truck transporting thousands of fingerling rainbow trout overturned earlier today near Offutt Lake south of Olympia....
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers are asking for the public's help in identifying who shot blacktail bucks in late October and last week with a crossbow on the northwest side of Corvallis....
A panel of six Northeast Washington residents provided perspectives on wolves and wolf management before the state wolf advisory group last week in Colville, and here's what they said....
