In the first of hopefully more easings of the state and tribal fishing moratorium on the Elwha that began in 2011, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is holding a ceremonial and subsistence fishery on the now damless north Olympic Peninsula river,...
The National Wildlife Federation expressed appreciation for the actions of both houses of Congress and President Biden to restore federal funding for hunter education and archery programs....
Washington's 2024 halibut season structure and dates are up for public discussion at a virtual meeting hosted the afternoon of October 11 by WDFW. West Coast fishery overseers are proposing to reallocate a portion of the Northwest's quota to California...
Thanks to tribal and state reintroductions in recent years and enough returning this fall to meet broodstock needs and spawn in the wild, coho retention will again be allowed on the Snake River from near Clarkston on up to the Oregon...
More information is coming out about the 6-foot-long, 245- to 250-pound, probably 8-year-old bluefin tuna that was discovered this past summer on an Orcas Island beach – "about 150 to 200 miles" from where you might expect to see one....
Razor clam digging was greenlighted on Oregon beaches from the Columbia's South Jetty to Tillamook Head, including the productive Clatsop County beaches, after marine toxin levels dropped below the closure limit, ODFW and ODA announced today....
Oregon and Washington salmon managers extended Chinook retention in the Columbia Gorge pools through the end of the year during a conference call today. Season had been scheduled to close in mid-October....
Late September and early October 2023 fall Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
Nearly two dozen bison are roaming a reservation in Northcentral Washington after tribal wildlife managers released them "to live in the wild" there today....
You may have heard me say this before, but with all of our deer hunting coverage, the October issue of Northwest Sportsman is one of my absolute favorites of the year to put together. Yet something’s been missing each fall, and...
Deer managers and biologists at the Washington and Oregon Departments of Fish and Wildlife provide their thoughts on this season’s blacktail, mule deer and whitetail prospects....
Get it done, WDFW! That would be my official public comment on the agency's proposal to allow anglers and hunters to use their phones for storing their licenses as well as electronically tagging big game and reporting their catches....
WDFW announces that winter crab season will open October 1 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, San Juan Islands, Admiralty Inlet, waters off Camano Island and in northern Hood Canal....
Elk hoof disease may be causing more widespread changes in the ungulates' bodies than was previously known and which might also be passed down to their calves, according to researchers looking into the debilitating condition striking wapiti in Southwest Washington and...