When anglers talk fishing, they often focus on how many were caught, or how big the largest one was. Few consider what it takes to sustain a healthy aquatic habitat, and the importance of that to the very fish they’re after. Behind the scenes, many great fisheries are supported by[Read More…]

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) monitoring across Oregon is ramping up, with new check stations in place this week. CWD, a fatal disease to deer, elk, and moose, has already been detected in the neighboring states of Idaho, Washington, and California. More than 40,000 big game animals have been sampled over[Read More…]

With the lifting of some fire restrictions in Southern Oregon, some private lands within the Jackson Cooperative Travel Management Area (JACTMA) have reopened to walk-in only. Within the boundaries of the management area, roads designated as Green Dot roads are currently open for travel to public lands. On non-Green Dot[Read More…]

Hunters and anglers make up a small fraction of the general population, but it’s their dollars that keep many state fish and wildlife programs afloat. Saturday is National Hunting and Fishing Day, a day created to celebrate the hunters, anglers, and target shooters that combine to provide millions annually to[Read More…]

Landowners can get free wildlife forage seed next Thursday thanks to generous donations from the Rogue Valley, Curry, Josephine, and State-level Chapters of the Oregon Hunters Association, matched with federal funds granted to the Department of Fish and Wildlife through the Pittman-Robertson Act’s Wildlife Restoration Program. Landowners are eligible for[Read More…]

An exceptionally mild and warm 2025-‘26 winter across much of Oregon has provided good overwinter survival for Oregon’s deer and elk herds. Drought-impacted areas got a short reprieve in spring before dry conditions returned in late summer. Recent rains with cooler temperatures offer a temporary fix as fall moves into[Read More…]

Ben Mulligan, chairman of the Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports, recently produced a joint statement from conservation, hunting and shooting sports leaders aimed at educating the public. In it, he said the future of hunting, trapping and recreational shooting depends on more than participation alone, noting that[Read More…]

Oregon would be among the 10 most-impacted states if a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a one-size-fits-all restriction that has frustrated land managers and served as a barrier to wildfire risk reduction work across large swaths of America’s national[Read More…]

Millions of birds are already taking flight from Canada and winging their way south. The action will heat up in Oregon over the next month or two. Studies have shown that Northern American bird populations have dropped by nearly 30 percent, or about three billion birds, since 1970, and that[Read More…]