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As the only locally based hunting and fishing magazine in the Northwest, Northwest Sportsman details the whats, wheres, whens and hows of fishing and hunting this great region of ours. Every month's issue of the magazine also features the personalities that bring you the outdoor lifestyle that we are known for here in the great Pacific Northwest. On the digital side, our website brings you..
Northwest Sportsman Magazine
2h ago
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office say they arrested a 22-year-old local Oregon Coast man in connection with the deliberate poisoning of 15,000 to 20,000 young hatchery Chinook on Monday back at the scene of the crime a day later.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
2d ago
Thousands of young hatchery fall Chinook salmon died at a rearing site on Oregon's Central Coast, the apparent victims of a deliberate poisoning late last weekend.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
3d ago
Mid-April 2024 spring Chinook and steelhead catch stats for the Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, Wind and Klickitat Rivers and Drano Lake.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
5d ago
A minimum of 260 wolves roamed Washington at the end of 2023, a 20 percent jump over the previous count and marking a 15th straight year of population growth.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
5d ago
A deeply, starkly, bitterly divided Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has directed WDFW staffers to develop a slate of cougar rulemaking proposals to get in place ahead of the start of hunting season this September.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
6d ago
Emily Lian, a 17-year-old Oregon artist, took top honors in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest with a gorgeous rendering of a king eider.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
6d ago
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted 2024-25 game bird regs, updated its recruitment plan for a new ODFW director and acquired 1,100 more acres for the state's Minam River Wildlife Area.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
6d ago
A pair of environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against federal, state and county officials over alleged Endangered Species Act violations related to salmon hatchery programs on the Lower Columbia.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
1w ago
Lower Columbia spring Chinook anglers caught 60 percent of the initial quota of upriver-origin hatchery kings available in the fishery that ran through April 11, according to an update out late this afternoon from state salmon managers.
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Northwest Sportsman Magazine
1w ago
2024's hatchery summer Chinook fishery on the Skykomish River will be even shorter than last year's three-day late-May affair: There won't be one.
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