Washington

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...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has conveniently moved the goalposts for grizzly bear delisting once again.

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 …

Longtime Eastmans blog readers might recall the name Lorna Smith, a new commissioner to WDFW...

Last week charges were filed in King County Court against Jason Smith of North Bend for illegal hunting...