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Begin your hunting journey or as an experienced hunter seek to refine your skills. The ODFW Hunter Recruitment Program offers resources and training to help you learn to hunt successfully. Connect with Oregon's outdoor traditions, enhance your skills, and contribute to a culture of safe, ethical, and conservation-minded hunting and shooting sports. More information about ODFW Hunter Recruitment Program Classes and workshops are designed for adults 18+.
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The Angler Education Program introduces sport fishing to beginners with an emphasis on youth and families. Programs are designed to provide a basic understanding of aquatic ecosystems and help people develop the skills, knowledge and responsibilities associated with angling. More information about ODFW Angler Education Program
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Sport fishing offers youth and adults alike a healthy and fun recreational activity that can be shared for a lifetime with friends and family. Workshops are offered statewide throughout the year. View and register for an upcoming event: Classes and W or kshops.
Find the 2025-26 weekly statistics for waterfowl and upland game birds at Klamath Wildlife Area.
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is conducting research on fisher, a forest-dwelling carnivore that once occupied forests across the Cascade and Klamath-Siskiyou regions. Today, Oregon's remaining fisher persist as a small, isolated population in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains. And ODFW researchers want to know how…
CLACKAMAS, Ore. – Sturgeon retention in Bonneville Pool and The Dalles Pool will open for one day on Monday, Feb. 16. These retention fisheries had not opened on the traditional date of Jan. 1 as in previous years. Due to warmer-than-normal winter water temperatures, increased angling effort, and high catch…
Public comment period open; comment via online form SALEM, Ore.—Oregon's Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet Feb. 20 at the Lane County Armed Forces Readiness Center, 3106 Pierce Parkway in Springfield. The meeting starts at 8 am and will be livestreamed on the meeting agenda page and at ODFW's YouTube…
SALEM, Ore. – ODFW staff received a report of an incident involving a coyote biting an adult along Orchard Heights Rd., just outside the city limits of West Salem that occurred on Feb. 11. The Polk County Sherriff's Office (PCSO) initially responded to the area to conduct a site investigation…
SPRINGFIELD, Ore.— The Commission voted 6-1 to deny a petition that requested crab fishery rules be modified to further reduce the risk of whale entanglement, while urging the department to continue its planned rulemaking process and engagement with NOAA fisheries to obtain ESA coverage. Whale entanglements have increased in Oregon…
Initial Columbia River spring Chinook seasons set - Sturgeon retention days added in The Dalles Pool
UPDATE FEB. 26, 2026: Fishery managers added another day of sturgeon retention in The Dalles Pool (Tuesday March 3, 2026). The same bag limit and legal size restrictions apply on the days noted below. CLACKAMAS, Ore.—Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington adopted initial recreational spring Chinook seasons on the Columbia…
SALEM, Ore. — ODFW's Fish Restoration and Enhancement Board will meet in person on Thursday, March 5 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. in the classroom at ODFW Headquarters, 4034 Fairview Industrial Dr. SE. A virtual option is also available. The public can attend in person or virtually on Teams…
