The future of big game hunting may look very different in Washington...

Washington state commissioners have pretty much turned the committee into a 3-ring circus instead of focusing on what they are meant to do, which is to oversee the management of wildlife in this state. My last blog post focused on Commissioner Rowland who recently published an op-ed under the guise …

The ongoing saga continues in Washington state...

What has gone on in Washington has attracted the attention of national groups that fight for hunters rights...

As you know from past columns Washington is a battleground state for hunting rights...

As noted in an earlier blog post the first case of CWD was confirmed in Washington earlier this month.  In that blog post I noted that there would be additional regulations coming out as a result of that.  On August 23, 2024, the State of Washington implemented emergency regulations in …

Earlier this month, WDFW announced that CWD had been detected in a deer in Washingtonstate for the first time. The whitetail doe was found dead just north of Spokane Washingtonnear the Idaho border. Washington state officials have been testing proactively since 2021 inthis area for CWD. CWD is a transmissible …

Your State Will Be Next!  This Friday, February 17th, Lorna Smith, a new commissioner to the WDFW, will present a radical new model of game management in Washington state. Past readers of this blog recall that in 2022 the WDFW commission canceled the annual spring bear hunt in Washington, claiming …

Past readers of this blog recall that in 2022 the WDFW commission cancelled the annual spring bear hunt in Washington, claiming lack of scientific evidence for the hunt, despite 48 years of data and the elk population being significantly below target.  The main reason for the cancellation of this hunt …

  As you may recall, last spring hunters in Washington lost their spring bear season when the Commission voted 5-4 in favor of not having a spring bear season.  The commission is meeting again on November 18th to discuss development of a spring bear policy.  This despite over 48 years …