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 ...

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 ...

UPDATED 12:04 P.M. PST, JUNE 24, 2025, WITH COMMENTS FROM BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS AND ANGLERS It’s all a little bit Washington DC-ese, but a bid to sell off 2 to 3 million acres of Forest Service and BLM ...

UPDATED 4:11 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025 WITH AN ODFW PRESS RELEASE AT BOTTOM Umpqua River wild Chinook anglers escaped a full closure but will still see a heavily restricted fishery this fall.

Yesterday, the federal government backed out of a “landmark” deal aimed at restoring salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia Basin. But the work is far from dead. So vowed Tucker Jones, the Oregon ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study found that coastal cutthroat trout are nearly as sensitive to a tire preservative byproduct that gets washed into streams during rainstorms as coho salmon are. COASTAL CUTTHROAT TROUT ...

THE FOLLOWING IS THE MONTHLY “BEING FRANK” COLUMN FROM NORTHWEST INDIAN FISHERIES COMMISSION CHAIR ED JOHNSTONE Tribes in western Washington are already seeing the impacts of presidential executive ...

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 River. All that and ...

Hunters and anglers are cheering this evening after a bid to sell off or exchange nearly half a million acres of public land in the West was stripped out of a US House reconciliation budget bill ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed into law a pair of bills increasing the cost to fish and hunt in the state. One raises the price of most fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent and the ...