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The Department of Fish and Wildlife says the upgrades will include new shooting benches and sheds, improved drainage and an improved pistol range backstop.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has released its forecast for salmon returning to the Upper Columbia River this year. WDFW collaborates annually with the state's tribes to produce the forecast. This year's projections include the return of nearly 85,000 summer Chinook and over 272,000 fall Chinook, which are similar numbers to the past three years...

WDFW Commissioners have approved the Rendezvous - Golden Doe Forest Restoration Project to thin trees on about 464 acres.

Bighorn sheep, mule deer, and mountain goats will be captured and fitted with GPS collars, before being released back into the wild.

Pneumonia caused by the Movi bacteria could be lethal for bighorn sheep populations, and there is currently no treatment or vaccine available as a preventative measure.

The stations are called CD3 units because they are used to clean, drain, dry and dispose.

The proposed rule is intended to reduce the spread of Movi, a type of bacteria that causes pneumonia and can be deadly to bighorn sheep.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is planning a prescribed fire in Chelan County next month. The Department has announced a burn on 500 acres in the Colockum Wildlife Area, which is 20 miles southeast of Wenatchee. Prescribed fires are used in wildlife areas to reduce the risk and severity of future wildfires, and improve habitat for wildlife...

The agency says the work is happening now to take advantage of low water levels.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is changing the status of the greater sage grouse from threatened to endangered. Conservation Section Assessment Manager Taylor Cotten says there were multiple reasons for the uplisting. "There's the continued population decline, but also new information around the effective population size which is basically the number of individual birds that