Category: HEADLINES

Three surf fishermen died in two separate incidents on the Northwest Coast Wednesday morning....

Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee's latest attempt to get his land disposal proposal around Congressional rules still stinks....

WDFW is laying off staffers for 29 positions, not filling many of 170 vacancies, shutting down a hatchery, closing a popular steelhead fishery next year and is being forced to let a predator suppression project largely lapse as a result of...

A pro-hunting and -fishing organization continues to roll out unflattering internal Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission emails, this time a damaging communication that appears to indicate the chair is against recruiting more sportsmen, a stunning position for someone to have while...

Mid- to late June 2025 sockeye, steelhead, Chinook, sturgeon, walleye and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Willamette below the falls....

It's all a little bit Washington DC-ese, but a bid to sell off 2 to 3 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land has been ruled subject to a 60-vote minimum instead of a simple majority in the Senate, and...

Both of Idaho's US Senators and Montana's Steve Daines have come out against a plan in Congress to sell off 2 to 3 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land across the West, while Outdoor Life reports hunters and others...

I think about deer camp in the Okanogan, how it sits on a nice flat spot in the hills just off a decent road and is only occupied by humans for a few weeks in fall, and then I think about...

With Washington lawmakers' passage of increased fishing and hunting fees set to take effect first thing next month, WDFW is updating out-the-door prices for its various licenses and fees, as well as warning Columbia River anglers the salmon-steelhead endorsement is returning...

Four weeks ago there was "just no way" Lookingglass Creek in Northeast Oregon would open for a fourth straight year of spring Chinook fishing, but thanks to an unexpected late push of salmon, the stream will open for anglers tossing lures...

Mid-June 2025 catch stats for spring Chinook, shad, summer steelhead and sturgeon on the Lower Columbia, lower Willamette and select Southwest Washington tributaries....

Umpqua River wild Chinook anglers escaped a full closure but will still see a heavily restricted fishery this fall....

Yesterday, the federal government backed out of a "landmark" deal aimed at restoring salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia Basin. But the work is far from dead....

The federal government is pulling out of a deal that paused a long-running court case over Columbia River hydropower operations and their impacts on listed salmon and steelhead stocks and which might have led to the breaching of four dams on...

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited are blasting a US Senate committee's proposal that they say would force the sale of up to 3 million acres of public land in the West, including potentially in...

WDFW announces it has finalized the purchase of a four-lane boat ramp and trailer and vehicle parking lot at Sekiu, an acquisition funded by state lawmakers and approved by the Fish and Wildlife Commission earlier this year....