On April 16, 2020 Patrol Troopers from the John Day Worksite assisted the John Day Police Department with the execution of a search warrant at a local residence regarding an ongoing theft investigation. ...
With fishing scheduled to reopen under standard rules on May 5, following a statewide closure to help combat the spread of COVID-19, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) reminds anglers that a number of emergency rules remain in effect...
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers are asking for the public's help as they investigate the poaching of a pair of mule deer bucks just north of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge over the weekend....
Spring Chinook will reopen for four days over the next week and a half on the Columbia on two stretches between Woodland and the Washington-Oregon border east of McNary Dam....
Non-residents may fish and hunt in Oregon again beginning Tuesday, May 5. Recreational clamming and crabbing will remain closed to non-residents until further notice....
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its partners awarded $2,583,519 of grant funding in Oregon to benefit scientific wildlife research and enhance habitat for elk and other species. ...
When the Great Glacier oozed its way through Puget Sound country during the last Ice Age, it had no idea it would leave behind the perfect fixin's for stay-close-to-home fishing during a virus pandemic approximately 20,020 years later....
An unexpected 405,000 triploid rainbows were released into Riffe Lake earlier this month, fish that almost had to go to the landfill but down the line will make some Southwest Washington anglers happy instead....
The Clark Fork River and the adjacent portion of Lake Pend Oreille have become increasingly popular with anglers and hunters in recent years. A tremendous fishery exists for a diversity of species in both the river and the lake...
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to remind anglers that fishing for wild winter steelhead is closed throughout the Santiam Basin including the North and South Santiam rivers....
Governor Inslee and WDFW Director Kelly Susewind will hold a joint press conference along with other natural resource agency heads this afternoon to address the phased reopening fishing, state boat ramps and other recreational activities....
The start of a tribal Dungeness fishery off Tacoma today is a potential good sign for sporties who haven't been able to crab in these waters for two summers....
Evergreen State wolf numbers continue to grow, with the minimum count up 11 percent over 2018 to, at the very least, 145 wolves across the state, according to WDFW's annual report....