Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
ODFW’S NEW ELECTRONIC LICENSING SYSTEM MOBILE LOGIN PAGE LAUNCHING DEC. 1, 2018 FOR THE SALE OF 2019 LICENSES Photo provided/ODFW Get ready for the launch of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s new modernized licensing system on Dec. 1-hang onto the 2018 hunting or fishing…
A new program will provide big game preference points in lieu of a cash reward to people who turn in poachers. The program builds on the long standing Turn in Poachers Program (TIP), a successful collaboration between the Oregon Hunters Association and Oregon State Police…
The parties of the Pacific Salmon Treaty have agreed on new coastwide salmon fishing agreements. The Pacific Salmon Commission is comprised of representatives from Canada, the states of Oregon, Washington and Alaska, and the Northwest and Columbia River Treaty Tribes. Commissioners from the United States…
Doug Kitchen, ODF Assistant District Wildlife Biologist, setting up trail cameras in the are of ODFW’s cougar capture operations. Photo Provided/Roger Fuhrman, ODFW Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is ending cougar capture operations in Zigzag because all available evidence shows the cougar killed Sept.…
PHOTO PROVIDED State wildlife biologists asked successful hunters to donate a wing and tail for research. The season for both forest grouse is Sept. 1, 2018 through Jan. 31, 2019 statewide. Mountain quail season is open Sept. 1-Jan. 31 in western Oregon, Hood River and…
The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public’s help to identify the person(s) responsible for the unlawful taking of a bull elk in Douglas County. On the evening of Aug. 31, OSP Fish and Wildlife Troopers responded to a report…
The Portland District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began to increase releases from Fern Ridge Reservoir on Monday, Sept. 10. Outflows from the dam will gradually increase from about 60 to 300 cubic feet per second. Corps hydrologists project that the 11-day release will lower…
IMAGE PROVIDED Hard winters often play havoc with big game herds, making forage harder to find and causing deer and elk to be more vulnerable to predators as they are forced to struggle through deep snow. For that reason, hunters often breathe a sigh of…
FILE PHOTO You can always be ready to go camping if you stay prepared. Grab three large plastic storage bins from a local store. Keep air mattresses, pumps, pillows and tarps in one bin. In the second bin, pack up stoves, pots, pans, lanterns, hatchets,…