A WDFW investigation leads to the sentencing of a 54-year-old Skagit County woman who pled guilty to a felony count of unlawful wildlife trafficking after she purchased black bear gall bladders, ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission had a pretty busy day today, opening the Coquille for the first fall Chinook fishery since 2021 (hatchery only), approving tweaks to the 2026 fishing regs ...

When the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission meets September 11-12 in Ontario, it will take up mule deer and sage grouse management, recreational sportfishing regulation changes, and more. Here are ...

Thanks to a "strong comeback," the whitetails of the Lower Columbia River are on the verge of a federal delisting proposal.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife talks about the loss of legislative funding for the Salmon River Hatchery and how production on the system as well as with other Chinook, coho, steelhead and ...

Washington Coast Chinook are "most likely at low risk of extinction," according to a federal status review, potentially lowering the odds of an eventual Endangered Species Act listing for the ...

ODFW and the Oregon Hunters Association are again teaming up to encourage deer and elk hunters to get their harvests checked for chronic wasting disease; those who submit tests will be put in to a ...

Litigation over Columbia River hydropower operations impacts on salmon and steelhead that had been paused appears to be headed back to court as Northwest fish and fishing interests, including a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At a time of changing theories in fish and wildlife management and conservation and the funding thereof, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has a new senior natural resource policy advisor and hunters and ...