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Features: Oregon is home to an estimated 25,000-30,000 black bears, which is North America’s most common bear species. They are the only type of bear found in Oregon. Despite their name, black bears are often brown in color. Habitat: Black bears are found statewide, with concentrations in the Coast and Cascade ranges and the Blue Mountains. Techniques: Oregon offers a controlled spring season (apply by Feb. 10) and a general fall season. Glassing open areas where bears are feeding on grass and shrubs works early spring season. Later in the season, some hunters turn to predator calls. Most fall bears…
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The transition from forested foothills of Mt. Hood to the beginnings of the Columbia Basin offers big game hunters an array of opportunities. The challenge can be finding public land or getting permission to hunt on private land.
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This vast area covers the Columbia Basin through the Blue, Wallowa and Elkhorn mountains to Hells Canyon. Some of Oregon's most prized big game hunts are managed in this area.
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This area extends from the eastern flanks of the Cascade Range through the Ochoco Mountains to the beginning of the Great Basin, making it a great place to explore.
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Southeast Oregon, with its ponderosa pine forests, sage steppe expanses and aspen pocked mountains, is a very popular area to hunt mule deer, elk and pronghorn antelope.
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Located near the Elkhorn Mountain Range, Elkhorn Wildlife Area is best known for Rocky Mountain elk and mule deer herds that use the area during the winter. To keep deer and elk from feeding on agriculture lands when they come down from snow-covered higher elevations, ODFW operates 10 feeding sites on the area to feed 1,400 elk and 800 deer during the winter months.
March 05, 2018
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Mid Columbia Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new South Wallowa Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Trout Creek Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Mid Columbia Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new North Blues Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new North Blues Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Klamath Basin Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 14, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Devils Garden Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 13, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Devils Garden Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 13, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Trout Creek Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Painted Hills Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Sage Hen Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025