WDFW Talks Puget Sound Chinook At Special New Early NOF Meeting
The briefing included updates on ocean conditions, the challenges of holding mixed-stock fisheries, straightjacketing Stillaguamish Chinook payback provisions in the new Puget Sound harvest management plan, a look back at what (the hell?!?) happened during last summer’s fisheries, and a chance to ask agency managers questions and offer ideas for 2024.
Pneumonia Outbreak Hits Hells Canyon Bighorns
Northwest wildlife managers are monitoring a disease outbreak in bighorn sheep at the northern end of Hells Canyon and are asking the public to report any sick or dead sheep they see.
Two-rod Fishing Again Allowed For Willamette Springers
ODFW announces that the two-rod validation will again be in effect for spring Chinook and steelhead on the lower Willamette beginning March 1 and above the falls starting May 1.
Hunter Conservation Orgs Highlight Decades Of Success In The Marsh, Woods
Ducks Unlimited is calling attention to World Wetlands Day and its tie-in with human wellbeing on the international event’s 53rd anniversary, while the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is touting recent “conservation highs” it was part of as it begins its 40th year of working on habitat and access.
WDFW To Talk Resident Native Trout Harvest Management Policy At Public Meeting
Washington fishery managers will talk about the scope and development of a new policy around harvest management for native, non-hatchery-origin cutthroat and rainbow trout at an upcoming virtual meeting.
WA Fish-Hunt Constitutional Amendment Bill Passes Out Of Committee
A Washington legislative committee gave a do-pass recommendation to a bill that aims to amend the state constitution to enshrine the rights to hunt, fish, forage and more.
Tips Needed On Killings, Wastings Of Cow Moose, 4 Blacktails In Oregon
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers need the public’s help to identify whomever illegally killed and wasted a cow moose in the southeast corner of the state in mid-January, as well as four deer last fall in Tillamook County.
Orgs Threaten Lower Columbia Hatchery Lawsuit
A pair of environmental groups are threatening to sue federal, state and local fishery managers over alleged ESA violations related to Lower Columbia hatchery programs.
WA Fish And Wildlife Commission, Overreach, Rinse, Repeat
A bit more than 24 hours after the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission learned the hard way that their Conservation Policy wasn’t going to cut it with at least half a dozen tribes – sovereign nations with treaty rights that they comanage fishing and conservation issues with – a few of the same members wanted to tell the state of Oregon how it was going to manage Columbia River salmon fisheries.
Tips Needed To Solve Shooting Of Multiple Cow Elk In NE OR
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers are looking for help identifying whomever shot multiple cow elk in the Sugar Bowl Ridge area of the Heppner Unit in Umatilla County, wasting at least two. The animals were discovered in late December.
WDFW Tech Dies On Duckabush
A WDFW employee working at a fish trap on the Duckabush River is presumed to have drowned on Tuesday, according to state officials and county deputies.
6 Tribes Request Gov-to-gov Consultations On WDFW Commission’s Conservation Policy
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission’s push to approve a new Conservation Policy for itself and WDFW appears to be going on pause after six tribes formally asked to consult with the state on the far-reaching guidance document.
WDFW To Begin New Cow Moose Study In Northeast Washington
WDFW says it plans to capture and collar 80 cow moose in Northeast Washington starting this winter as part of a new longer term study to assess survival rates of the state’s largest ungulate species in its most predator-rich neighborhood.
ODFW Holding 3 In-person Meetings On Draft Mule Deer Management Plan In Early Feb.
Oregon wildlife officials are holding public meetings in Salem, Bend and La Grande early next month to gather input on the draft mule deer management plan that has been undergoing revision.
Watching And Waiting Time For Smelt Dippers
It’s officially watch and wait time for smelt dippers. Columbia managers set a research-level commercial fishery this morning that will help determine if enough eulachon are coming up the big river to warrant an opener on Washington’s Cowlitz.
Bill To Add Hunting, Fishing To WA Constitution Heard, Plus Other Oly Legislation To Watch
A legislative hearing on holding a public vote to amend Washington’s state constitution to enshrine the rights to hunt, fish and trap attracted a lot of attention this afternoon in Olympia, one of a baker’s dozen worth of bills to watch over the coming weeks.