Think tank’s deep dive into ‘dysfunctional’ Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission might be used by legislature to dissolve the citizen oversight panel instead of correct recent years’ issues. By ...

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 ...

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. ...

GOOD SALMON YEAR 2024 came in large and in charge when it came to many salmon runs, with new sockeye records set at Bonneville Dam (755,909) on the Columbia and Tumwater Dam (190,117) on the Wenatchee ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington’s two gubernatorial candidates have detailed their positions on salmon fisheries and recovering Chinook and other stocks, hatcheries and the Fish and Wildlife Commission in response to Q&As ...

WDFW is detailing tentative 2025-26 Washington salmon fisheries, including bonus pinks in most inner Puget Sound fisheries, Skykomish summer Chinook, Skagit-Baker sockeye, ocean kings and coho, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bill that would hike the cost of most Washington fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent narrowly passed out of the Senate today. With a 25-24 roll-call vote, Substitute Senate Bill 5583 now ...

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 ...