ODFW will host the second facilitated meeting with Wolf Plan stakeholders Tuesday Oct. 9 in Salem at the Oregon Department of Forestry Headquarters, Tillamook Room, Bldg C 1st Floor, 2600 State Street. Stakeholders deeply involved with the Wolf Plan update have been invited to attend. The meeting starts at 9 a.m., see the meeting agenda at https://bit.ly/2xYQvsz Professional facilitator Deb Nudelman with Kearns...
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Metolius Pond, which is open to fishing for youth and disabled anglers only, will be closed to public entry from now until May 1, 2019. The pond on ODFW property in Camp Sherman opened this summer and was last stocked with trout on Labor Day. It will be stocked again in time for the May 1 opening next year. “The pond has...
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Beginning Monday, October 15, angling for fall chinook salmon in Hunter Creek is closed for the remainder of the season which ends December 31. This emergency regulation was triggered by 2013 Rogue Fall Chinook Conservation Plan measures to protect this small population of fall chinook. The plan calls for a minimum of 300 fall chinook migrating upstream; however, ODFW biologists forecast just 234...
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Best bets for weekend fishing: Ocean rockfish are still on the bite with limits being caught. Fall Chinook fishing is coming into its prime in coastal bays. Trout in Diamond and Willow lakes and Lost Creek Reservoir in the SW Zone. Hatchery summer steelhead in the middle and upper Rogue River. Trout in higher elevation lakes like Detroit, Dexter, Foster and North Fork reservoirs and...
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Give us a wing and a tail - Map of collection barrels for grouse and quail now available If you bag a bird, don’t forget to give us a wing and a tail for any forest grouse or mountain quail you harvest! Use paper bags in the bright blue collection barrels placed at major road junctions or highways in hunting areas and...
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