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 ...

THE FOLLOWING REPORT WAS FORWARDED BY JERRY PRUIETT, WDFW Preliminary Lower Columbia River and Washington Tributary Sport Summary – June 16-22, 2025 Mainstem Columbia River Lower Columbia River, Rocky ...

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. So vowed Tucker Jones, the Oregon ...

A new study found that coastal cutthroat trout are nearly as sensitive to a tire preservative byproduct that gets washed into streams during rainstorms as coho salmon are. COASTAL CUTTHROAT TROUT ...

Sportsmen and other public land users can see exactly what’s at stake with a proposal in Congress for a mandatory flash sale of 2 to 3 million acres of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land ...

As Washington hunters sat on pins and needles earlier this week prodding WDFW’s special permits website in hopes of seeing they’d been drawn, I got a backdoor glimpse into how the agency awards the ...

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 ...

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ORIGINATED FROM ODFW The Commission is expected to adopt wild Chinook coastal seasons for fall 2025 coastal seasons at their June 13 hybrid meeting in Pendleton. Proposed ...

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 ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has finalized its acquisition of the Sekiu boat launch ...

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 ...

UPDATED 4:11 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025 WITH AN ODFW PRESS RELEASE AT BOTTOM Umpqua River wild Chinook anglers escaped a full closure but will still see a heavily restricted fishery this fall.