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 ...

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 Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is preparing to walk away from its controversial draft Conservation Policy. JOHN LEHMKUHL, WASHINGTON FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION MEMBER AND CHAIR OF THE ...

An Evergreen State sportsmen’s organization has filed a lawsuit against Governor Inslee and five of his appointees to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission and seeks to replace them with vetted ...

While 2024’s big returns to the Columbia will help keep up recent decades’ averages over pre-2000 ones, the bottom line, however, is that reaching the hydropower system mitigation goal of 5 million ...

By Jillian Garrett Times are changing in the world of outdoor recreation, and nowhere more so than when it comes to wildlife. In the most recent edition of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated ...

That effort is also meant to “reaffirm” Colbert’s high expectations of her staff’s care and feeding, per se, of the 35 million salmon and steelhead and 5 million trout that ODFW annually rears and ...

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. ...

The mystery of why urban coho are dying before they can spawn is most strongly associated with Seattle. It’s where the condition was first seen (Longfellow Creek above the lower Duwamish) and where ...

Pikeminnow season will start early this year at three stations on the Columbia River. COLUMBIA GORGE NORTHERN PIKEMINNOW. (PIKEMINNOW.ORG) Managers at the Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery ...

A bill slated to drop in Olympia Wednesday morning would make WDFW’s director a political appointee again and turn the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission into an advisory panel. WASHINGTON SCENES ...