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....
Record fish runs, great angling, salmon quickly colonizing a freed river, commission antics, a new DFW director, wildlife diseases, land buys, lawsuits, people doing good deeds, wolverines in crazy places – ahh, yes, when it came to the Northwest fishing and...
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers arrested 13 people at nine Clackamas County homes and seized 14 infrared thermal imaging devices, a rifle and four deer in an operation that followed a months-long investigation into the subjects’ use of FLIR to kill...
Blacktail deer, elk and other critters will benefit from a new wildlife crossing coming to Southern Oregon over I-5, thanks to $33 million secured for the state Department of Transportation....
NMFS reports that anglers harvested 40,000-plus wild coho on the Oregon Coast this season while another 150,000-plus are expected to have spawned there this year, testaments to the continuing recovery of this resilient salmon species....
Four more hunter-harvested whitetail bucks tested positive for chronic wasting disease, Washington wildlife managers report this morning, bringing the number of known cases in the state to six....
The Traditional Archers of Oregon have pitched in $500 for info leading to an arrest or citation in the illegal shooting of two Corvallis blacktail bucks with a crossbow this fall, bringing the reward to $2,000....
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....
