The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 6-1 to deny a petition that requested crab fishery rules be modified to further reduce the risk of whale entanglement.
In August 2025, two biologists from NOAA Fisheries’ Alaska Region Protected Resources Division traveled to St. George Island to conduct routine maintenance on NOAA facilities. Upon their arrival, they began receiving reports from residents about a high number of northern fur seals found dead in unexpected locations on the island.
The Bonneville Power Administration’s first quarter financial forecast shows mixed results for the agency’s expected end-of-year performance.
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s refusal to develop a national gray wolf recovery plan under the Endangered Species Act.
A debilitating hoof disease affecting elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single pathogen but by multiple bacterial species working together, according to a study led by researchers in Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
A federal judge signaled that he could accept at least some operational changes at lower Columbia and Snake river dams proposed by the state of Oregon and conservation groups in October.
Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists feared.
Forecasts for the 2026 runs of spring and summer Chinook salmon and winter steelhead into the Columbia River are coming in lower than last year’s actual returns for each of the stocks, according to a joint state and tribe stock status report.
A new analysis shows that the Pacific Northwest’s mature and old-growth forests are most at risk of severe wildfire in areas that historically burned frequently at lower severity.
John Hairston, who has served as administrator and chief executive officer of the Bonneville Power Administration since January 2021, is announcing his retirement from federal service. He’s headed to the Eugene Electric and Water Board as its new general manager.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has reached a significant goal in conservation science by gaining the ability to study more closely the behavioral patterns of the Sierra Nevada red fox in the southern Sierra Nevada.
Canada is failing in a decades-old pledge to monitor the health of Pacific salmon, according to new research from Simon Fraser University.
A proposed clean energy pump storage generating project near the John Day Dam on the Columbia River cleared another hurdle last week when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the project a 40-year operating license, despite opposition by the Yakama Nation and environmental groups.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an agency that regulates dams and power plants across the U.S., is seeking comments from the public on a draft supplemental environmental impact statement for Idaho Power’s Hells Canyon complex of dams on the Snake River.
On Jan. 13, while many of Idaho’s anglers were breaking out the tape measure to check ice thicknesses and temperature gauges, one angler at Dworshak Reservoir had his tape measure out for a different reason.
A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help them avoid wolf encounters.
A warm and mostly dry January has depleted most of the lower level snowpack around the Columbia River basin, with record low or near record low snowpack in the Oregon and southern Washington Cascade Mountains, a condition that could contribute to lower stream flows that will be needed for salmon and steelhead migrations this spring and summer.
The Center for Biological Diversity released an analysis that it says shows that a two-decade, state-led voluntary conservation agreement has not produced a measurable increase in the abundance of critically imperiled Arctic grayling in Montana’s Big Hole River.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is investigating the illegal introduction of a northern pike into Pine Grove Pond, a popular family fishing site in Kalispell.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s multi-year moose monitoring project is now entering its third winter. Warmer winters, changing habitat, increased parasites, and predation impacts raise questions about the status and trajectory of Washington’s moose population.
Most anglers that wind up atop the Idaho state record fish leaderboards do so out of pure luck. But Robert Gregory’s story goes a little different.
For the fourth year in a row, recreational retention of white sturgeon in the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam and in the Willamette River will remain closed, although catch and release angling is likely this year.
Climate change is skewing the North Pacific storm track northwards quicker than current weather predictions have estimated, moving winds and rains closer to the arctic and leaving cooler and drier conditions in the Northwest, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature.
The United States includes more than 4 million miles of rivers, with laws and regulations to protect access to drinking water and essential habitat for fish and wildlife.
During 2025, Montana Fish,Wildlife and Parks staff inspected more than 120,000 watercraft.
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