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.

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 ...

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.

US Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted this evening that he had “made the decision to withdraw the federal land sales provision” from the so-called Big Beautiful Bill before the US Senate. It’s a HUGE ...

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.

A failure to first determine whether an Oregon Coast slough was actually a good place to release 37,000 fall Chinook smolts last September contributed to the deaths of the young salmon soon after.

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.’ By Jillian Garrett Public approval of ...

Umpqua River wild Chinook anglers escaped a full closure but will still see a heavily restricted fishery this fall.

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 ...

More collared Blue Mountains elk calves have survived to this point of 2022 than last year, but cougars are again taking the lion's share among Southeast Washington's burgeoning predator guild.

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 ...

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 ...