Category: HEADLINES

Pikeminnow season will start early this year at three stations on the Columbia River....

Western hunters and anglers will be breathing a temporary sigh of relief after the Supreme Court of the United States today declined to hear a state of Utah bid to wrest 18.5 million acres of public land away from the federal...

Governor Jay Inslee's waning-hours appointments to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission are blasted by the state chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers as undermining public trust, abandoning stakeholder input and transparency, contradicting recommendations in the recent Ruckelshaus report, and deepening...

A Northeast Washington woman active in the regional Rotary Club has been named to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, state records show....

Molly Linville, the Douglas County rancher and former federal wildlife biologist, will not be reappointed to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, a loss of a key vote for sportsmen....

The National Marine Fisheries Service reports on a new paper that explores the overlap of increasing numbers of voracious juvenile sablefish, also known as black cod, and young salmon off the Northwest Coast, theorizing that it may put Chinook and coho...

The preliminary outlook for Columbia fall Chinook in 2025 calls for a return to the mouth similar to and maybe even better than last year's actual run, which came in at 123 percent of forecast....

Washington wildlife biologists plan on capturing blacktails in GMUs 522, 550 and 556 east of Longview to test best ways to monitor the elusive deer and "more accurately" estimate their populations....

WDFW is barring wildlife rehabilitators in far Eastern Washington from accepting deer, elk and moose as part of its latest emergency measure to help prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease in the state's big game herds....

If you haven’t already heard about the recently completed Ruckelshaus report, you are going to get very familiar with it in the coming months. It will play a major role in the continued battle over Washington wildlife management, and the decisions...

Washington shellfish managers approved a seven-day razor clam dig starting Saturday, January 10, as well as outlined tentative openers through March 1....

Federal and state wildlife officials say another gray wolf was illegally killed in Southcentral Washington's Klickitat County, this one in mid-December, and there's a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, criminal conviction or civil penalty....

Spring Chinook anglers will be able to retain one wild king a day and 10 for the season on the North Umpqua, but none on the mainstem Umpqua, where only hatchery Chinook can be kept this year due to low expected...

A Southeast Washington wolf pack blamed for killing two calves and injuring ten others may go under the gun as WDFW considers lethal removals to try and stop their five-month series of attacks....

Following "record effort and catch rates," sturgeon retention is closing on the Bonneville Day after a one-day season, as will The Dalles Pool, which may reopen later, and ODFW managers say they want "to have an honest conversation with the public...

A mother rescued her 5-year-old son after a coyote bit and pulled him to the ground and attempted to haul the child toward a greenbelt in Renton on New Year's Eve, Washington wildlife officials said....