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 ...

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 ...

Fired by a steady drip of videos highlighting certain Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members' internal communications, hunters came a'calling this morning for the resignations of four of them ...

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 ...

Concerns and questions should be growing over the burgeoning American shad population in Lake Washington, where as of mid-April crews had netted a minimum of at least six times as many of the fish as ...

An Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission workshop earlier this month showed Portlanders and Oregonians are well aware of the problem of 6PPD-q killing coho, and, what’s more, they appear to have doable ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today approved 2025 big game regulations, including a 2 percent increase in spring black bear tags and creating a new opportunity for youth hunters, among other ...

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.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has agreed to issue a key Endangered Species Act listing finding on Olympic Peninsula steelhead by December 1, according to documents filed in federal court this ...

King County shares the good news about how Lake Sammamish kokanee have begun to bounce back from the brink as well as plans to expand hatch boxes on tributaries.

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission approved WDFW-recommended cougar and bear hunting rules nearly unanimously this afternoon.

The White House has issued an executive order this evening creating a commission charged with looking at how to expand access to public lands for hunting, fishing and other activities, recover fish ...