Spring chinook angling to reopen Saturday

Spring chinook fishing in the lower Columbia River will open Saturday and continue daily, segueing into the summer salmon season debut on June 16.

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Spring chinook angling to reopen Saturday in lower Columbia

Season expected to continue uninterrupted until summer salmon start on June 16

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33 years later, volcano brings world travelers

Many Mount St. Helens visitors and researchers are from other countries

When visitors flock to Mount St. Helens on Saturday, it's a good bet that plenty of them won't be speaking English as their first language.

Wolves called state's most divisive wildlife issue

Debate over wolf management splits agency, sportsmen

Fishing report 5/16

Anglers can fish for hatchery steelhead, hatchery chinook jacks downstream of Interstate 5; shad angling now open; kokanee catches improving

Clark-Skamania Flyfishers to reach grant milestone

Club will have awarded $150,000 in past decade to help Southwest Washington, Columbia Gorge fisheries, habitat

Out & About

Items about Ape Cave trail, a boating safety class, a cycling event at Trout Lake, the Oregon Bass and Panfish Club meeting and a fishing contest by Cabela's

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Relocated endangered deer make the transition

37 white-tail deer adjust to new life at Ridgefield wildlife refuge

RIDGEFIELD — More than a month after an elaborate multi-agency operation moved some three dozen endangered Columbian white-tailed deer to protected habitat in Clark County, the animals are adapting to their new surroundings.

Summer sturgeon season set for Bonneville pool

Sportsmen get four days in June to retain fish between Bonneville, The Dalles dams

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States delay decision on lower Columbia spring chinook reopening

Washington and Oregon to meet again Monday to decide when to start angling again downstream of Bonneville Dam

NMFS announces proposed sea lion protections

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The National Marine Fisheries Service is taking public comment on proposed revisions to Steller sea lion protections in the western Aleutian Islands that could lead to more commercial fishing of Pacific cod, pollock and Atka mackerel.

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Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.

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Army won't kill gulls to help tern colony's young

Corps says end to hunt won't mean more salmon eaten

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday it will not continue killing gulls that have been eating baby Caspian terns at the West Coast's largest nesting colony, located at the mouth of the Columbia River.

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Army won't kill gulls to help salmon-eating terns

Corps says terns not expected to return to Rice Island near Astoria

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States to consider reopening spring chinook season in Columbia

About 1,200 salmon available for commercials and 1,400 for lower river sportsmen

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