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...
Public comment has opened on a federal plan to restore grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades, and the National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service are taking input on three alternatives....
A memorandum signed by President Biden today directs a host of federal agencies "to prioritize the restoration of healthy and abundant wild salmon, steelhead, and other native fish populations to the Columbia River Basin."...
A bill that would reauthorize funding hunter education and archery programs in schools passed the US House of Representatives in a near-unanimous vote yesterday and the Senate today, it has been reported....
WDFW announced that razor clam digging has been greenlighted for Long Beach, Twin Harbors and Copalis starting September 29, but marine toxin levels are postponing the season opener at Mocrocks....
After a two-and-a-half-month-long closure, the Quillayute and its tributaries such as the Bogachiel, Sol Duc and others will reopen to all fishing starting next Sunday, October 1....
Fall Chinook catches continue to increase in the Mid-Columbia's Hanford Reach, but managers say they won't be able to increase the limit to two kings a day after a runsize update "did not track as we had hoped."...
Governor Jay Inslee is acknowledging the monumental importance of hunting and fishing to conservation in Washington in a proclamation he signed ahead of tomorrow's national day of recognition for the beloved ways of life....
WDFW will hold an online town hall the evening of October 25 to begin talking to anglers and the public about the shape of the 2023-24 coastal winter steelhead season for streams from Forks to Naselle. ...
CWD was detected in northern Idaho in 2021, just 30 miles from the Oregon border. It is always fatal to deer and elk and there is no cure. The more animals that are tested, the more certain ODFW can be that...
A recently approved habitat conservation plan for private timberlands in the Clackamas and Molalla River basins east of Portland is being called a first of its kind for Oregon and is expected to result in improved Chinook, coho and steelhead habitat....
Federal governments on both sides of the North Cascades appear to be moving forward more seriously now with plans to reintroduce grizzly bears in the rugged border-straddling range....
An agreement between the federal government and Northeast Washington tribes will "fund efforts to test the feasibility of, and ultimately to reintroduce salmon in blocked habitats" of the Upper Columbia River....