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Fishing report 5/2

Spring chinook catches improving at Wind, Drano; trout fishing good at Swift Reservoir; kokanee fishing spotty at Merwin Reservoir

Debris booms in place at Swift Reservoir

Floating structures designed to protect new fish collector at the dam

Summer, fall salmon seasons set for lower Columbia

Chinook angling will resume no later than June 16

Surf perch derby scheduled May 18 at Long Beach

Anglers can fish anywhere along 20-mile peninsula shoreline

Port of Woodland to enforce off-road-vehicle restrictions at Austin Point

Private security patrol will attempt to stop illegal use

Items about a temporary fishing closure at Klineline Pond, a fly-casting workshop on June 1, an open house at the Science and Learning Center at Coldwater near Mount St. Helens and a vacancy on the Boating Safety Advisory Council

Sunset Falls campground to be on reservation system

Lower Falls campground will open once hazard trees removed and water tested

"College'' teaches trail-building techniques

Hundreds go to class to learn to improve, repair water crossings, rock walls and gain other backcountry skills

Mount Hood climber breaks leg; rescue started

PORTLAND — Search-and-rescue teams are on Mount Hood to help an injured climber.

Corps seeks comment on Columbia River jetty project

LONGVIEW — The Corps of Engineers is taking the first steps in a $257 million project that begins this summer to stabilize jetties at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Outdoors blog: Sunday's spring chinook test fishing results in lower Columbia

Chinook-per-drift average drops from previous week

Trout season opens strong at Swift Reservoir

Most fishermen catch a limit of nice-size rainbow at popular reservoir on North Fork of the Lewis River

Temporary rule allows killing of wolves attacking livestock, pets

SPOKANE — A wolf caught in the act of attacking livestock or pets in parts of Washington can immediately be killed by the property owner without a permit, the state Fish and Wildlife Commission decided Friday.

U.S. to drop gray wolves from endangered list

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections for all gray wolves in the Lower 48 states, carving out an a exception for a small pocket of about 75 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a draft document obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Cabela's to open Tualatin store

Store will be in new Nyberg Rivers shopping center off Interstate 5

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