Following on the closure of the Deschutes River to steelheading earlier this month, ODFW announces that the John Day will ...

In his final days, Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission member Victor Garcia penned a letter to Governor Bob Ferguson ...

Less than a month after an initiative petition that aimed to outlaw fishing and hunting in Oregon failed to get enough valid ...

Sportsmen are pushing back against the federal government's announcement this week that it is taking steps to totally remove ...

Restricting Washington deer hunters to one species only, adding first moose permits for the Okanogan and above Lake Chelan, ...

Columbia salmon managers are forecasting 147,300 above-Bonneville-bound spring Chinook in 2026, similar to last season’s actual return that bested the prediction by over 30,000 fish and allowed for ...

With wolf numbers reaching a point where statewide protections don’t make sense anymore, here’s a look at what a hunt might look like and how it could help advocates, ranchers and hunters get what ...

We are the only locally based hunting and fishing magazine in the Northwest, Northwest Sportsman details the what’s, where’s, when’s and how’s of fishing and hunting this great region of ours.

New year, new maps showing important migratory corridors of Evergreen State big game animals – mule deer in the Central Washington and whitetails and elk in the northeast corner. The cartography is ...

The Washington and Oregon Departments of Fish and Wildlife have published their initial 2026 fall Chinook outlook for the shared Columbia, as well as how well 2025’s fall runs up the big river ...

Last year, we rediscovered a great truth: When a bad idea that could affect fish, wildlife and our access to the Great Outdoors pops up, people of all stripes will unite to defeat it. I’m of course ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced today that summer crab fishing seasons will get underway July 2 in several Puget Sound marine areas. Other marine areas will open later ...