The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission did not make a decision today on the scope and timeline of beginning rulemaking around cougar hunting regulations, as had been scheduled, but will meet next month on emerging lion science....
Southwest Washington's Willapa National Wildlife Refuge grew by 2,366 acres last month, thanks to a land buy and transfer several years in the making and which will add public access and protect salmon streams....
Federal wildlife overseers report that three wolves were killed in southern Oregon late last December and that a $50,000 reward is being offered to help solve the crime. USFWS says that on December 29, the collars of two Gearhart Mountain Pack...
The long-term pause on litigation over Snake River dams proposed late last year was approved by a federal judge in Oregon today and that means joint state-tribal plans and US government commitments to Columbia Basin restoration will continue moving ahead....
The process may be a bit arcane to the lay reader, but WDFW is now seeking public comment on its official proposal to downlist gray wolves in Washington from state endangered to sensitive status....
Columbia spring Chinook managers are preliminarily considering an initial fishery below Bonneville that would run seven days a week through Friday, April 5, and provide an overall kept catch of 4,424 of the year's first salmon....
Even as the Boone & Crockett Club applauds USFWS's reaffirmation late last week that gray wolves in the Northern Rockies "faces no threat of extinction," the hunter organization questions the feds' proposal to create a national recovery plan....
WDFW says it has voluntarily stood down most staffers who work in, on or near water following an inspection by the state Department of Labor and Industries yesterday....
Federal wildlife overseers today denied petitions to list gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains and the Western United States, stating that the predators "do not meet the definition of an endangered species or a threatened species."...