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 ...

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.

The 2023 northern pikeminnow sport-reward season will go down as “a really solid year,” and one that produced a six-figure payday for an angler for only the third time in the 30-plus-year history of ...

More details emerged this morning about "exceptionally low" elk calf survival rates in Washington's Blue Mountains, where it's increasingly clear cougars are taking a lion-sized bite out of the herd.

Columbia fall salmon season dates, hatchery-Chinook-only retention periods, September river closures, a new boundary line for a super popular fishery near the mouth of the Lewis. All that and more is ...

Oregon’s 2021 big game and the forecast for deer and elk hunters span the gamut, with solid prospects in some areas and less-so ones elsewhere.

House Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee. REP. JOE FITZGIBBON (STATE LEGISLATURE) He said the commission’s origins in 1995’s Referendum 45, which also gave the ...

The second of ODFW's three Free Fishing Weekends of the year is coming up June 7-8, a time when you can catch trout, go crabbing, or attend a family fishing event without a license.

We need to share a better story about why we hunt cougars, bears and other carnivores ‘because the future of hunting – and wildlife conservation – depends on it.’ ...

If you haven’t already heard about the recently completed Ruckelshaus report, you are going to get very familiar with it in the coming months. It will play a major role in the continued battle over ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE. Oregon and Washington fishery managers have finalized preseason planning for 2025 Columbia River summer and fall ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is seeking public input on its draft status review for the ...