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• Fishing: Late Crabbing Season in the Offing

  Dungeness crab seekers will have a few Puget Sound fall options, though for Whatcom area pot fishers to partake in them, a voyage or portage will be necessary.Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/28/1400467/fishing-late-crabbing-season-in...

• Marine protection plan approved

  A unified proposal for new North Coast fishing restrictions under the Marine Life Protection Act was approved Tuesday. TO READ MORE.......

• A child's dream: Releasing sturgeon in the Kootenai river

  Children of the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho and of the hatchery staff excitedly milled around the boat launch until it was time to release the sturgeon. Before the fish could be released, Jennifer Porter, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho Tribal Chair, spoke of the ...

• Tribe Hosts Fish & Wildlife Conference (NAFWS)

  LEWISTON - Tribal representatives from across the Northwest have been in the Valley this week, talking about issues affecting fish and wildlife. TO READ MORE......

• Coaster brook trout reintroduced to lower Michigan

  Anyone who attended a Natural Resources Fair and Feast sponsored by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians earlier this month in Peshawbestown had the unique opportunity to fish for coaster brook trout in an enclosure in the tribal mari...

• Five plead guilty to illegally taking eaglets

  Five members of the Hopi tribe have pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally taking eaglets before the practice is legally allowed. According to information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eugene Mansfield, 58, Eldrice Mansfield, 40, Emmett Namoki...

• Get up close with bats

  October’s Do One Thing for Wildlife campaign is putting the spotlight on those furry winged creatures that inspire fear in so many people — bats. V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources wildlife biologist Renata Platenberg said despite m...

• Hatchery switches from spring to summer chinook

  ENTIAT — While spring chinook salmon were flocking back to the upper Columbia River in near-record numbers this year, only about 20 returned to the Entiat National Fish Hatchery. TO READ MORE......

• NEWS RELEASE: Something is Killing Our Bats

  Please go to the USFWS website:http://www.fws.gov/whitenosesyndrome/...

• Locals suggest oil-spill recovery actions

  THIBODAUX — Local officials gathered Monday to learn about a study that will assess environmental damage from the Gulf oil spill, come up with a plan to fix it and hand BP the bill. TO READ MORE......

• New Oregon-BPA Agreement Protects Williamette Habitat

  PORTLAND – Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Steve Wright, administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, today signed a landmark agreement to jointly protect nearly 20,000 acres of Willamette Basin wildlife habitat – more than twice the area o...

• The View from Rattlesnake should look to the future

  Come take in the view from the top of Rattlesnake Mountain! Oh, wait, you can't. That was just a tease from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when public tours were announced a few weeks ago. The rare opportunity for the general public to go to ...

• Progress under way on Wyeth in-lieu fishing site

  WYETH — The bridge spanning the railroad tracks on the north side of the Interstate 84 exit at Wyeth is part of a multi-million-dollar project to build a fishing access site for tribal fishermen and a future day-use state park. The Wyeth Treaty Fishi...

• Selawik youths take in season, science, culture

  For two weeks in mid-September, river boats gathered along the beach each morning in Selawik, waiting for students to charge down the bank and climb aboard for the 20-minute ride to the science and culture camp. This was the eighth consecutive year of ...

• $150M deal to protect Willamette River wildlife habitat

  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Bonneville Power Administration and Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a $150 million deal Friday requiring BPA to protect 20,000 acres of wildlife habitat in the Willamette River basin through 2025. The settlement between the federal...

• Climate Change Extends Arctic Fishing

  Officials in Nunavut's Baffin Island fishery say climate change has benefited their business somewhat, thanks to longer fishing seasons in recent years. The Baffin Fisheries Coalition says its turbot and shrimp fishing seasons have lengthened dra...

• Save some salmon for the bears and whales, study says

  Entire ecosystems on the Pacific coast rely on salmon and humans are taking more than their share, a new scientific study concludes. The paper calls for a shift in fishing plans to protect other species, from insects and seagulls to grizzly bears and ...

• Red Lake approves own wolf management plan

  RED LAKE, Minn. – While children of European descent are raised on tales of the Big Bad Wolf eating Grandmother and menacing Red Riding Hood, Ojibwe children hear a different set of stories – of Wolf, Ma’iingan, living harmoniously with Naniboujo...

• Swinomish Climate Change Initiative: At the Forefront of Planning for Climate Change

  Background In 2007, the Swinomish Tribe passed a Climate Change proclamation in response to growing concerns about potential impacts of climate change on the Swinomish Indian Reservation. The motivation behind t...

• Journo Conference Highlights Native American Issues

  A drive from Portland’s emerald green landscape took me into the Columbia River Gorge and the reds, golds and browns of autumn in eastern Oregon and Washington, through the panhandle of Idaho then southeast to a long and eagerly anticipated destinati...