Validation and wild steelhead harvest tags for the Rogue Basin and South Coast are now on sale. The validation is required for all winter steelhead anglers fishing in these areas from Dec. 1 to April 30. A separate wild winter steelhead harvest tag is required to keep wild winter steelhead.[Read More…]

A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate student, Hayden Walkush, was honored this week with the Boone and Crockett Club Fellow Outstanding Achievement Award. The award recognizes a graduate student whose research advances the Club’s mission and informs natural resource management and policy decisions in North America. The award highlights and[Read More…]

Feeling lucky? You’ll need to be if you win the Hunter’s Moon Giveaway dreamed up by Drury Outdoors and Mossy Oak, who teamed up on this massive collection of hunting gear from Mathews, Muddy, Stealth Cam, and more. Though there’s no cost to enter, you’ll need to supply your email[Read More…]

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…]