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• In brief: Vehicle passes required at fishing access sites

  April 12, 2012 in Sports on Page K11 Vehicles parking at Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife fishing access sites must display a Vehicle Access Pass or a Discover Pass. Both passes are transferable to two vehicles starting …

• Field reports: Hundreds of bald eagles wintered in Oregon

  April 1, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C9 WILDLIFE – The Oregon Wildlife Commission took bald eagles off the state endangered species list recently, five years after the big birds were removed from the federal list. In 1963, …

• Salmon, steelhead booming upstream

  August 22, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C9 The big 2010 spring chinook run up the Columbia River is history. The record number of sockeye are still making a splash and the whopper run of steelhead is catching …

• Clearwater REVIVAL

  May 30, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C10 Dworshak Reservoir is the best thing that never quite lived up to its promise to Clearwater County, Idaho. But a weekly dab of fertilizer is growing more incentive for anglers …

• Springers surge to Yakima

  May 2, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C9 The first fish arrived Wednesday for a spring chinook season that opened Saturday on portions of the Yakima River. A good run of salmon progressing up the Columbia system should …

• Chinook news good

  April 15, 2010 in Sports on Page K9 Spring chinook salmon have started their run up the Columbia and Snake river systems in what could be the biggest numbers since 1938. Or maybe not quite that big.

• Idaho likely to get huge share of springers

  February 14, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C12 Spring chinook salmon are poised for a repeat of 2001, the recent high-water mark for salmon fishing in Idaho. Fisheries managers in Idaho are predicting a return of 180,000 spring …

• Chinook forecast scaled down

  May 17, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C11 Salmon managers in the Columbia River Basin say only about half the number of spring chinook originally predicted will return past Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River this year. Managers …