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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Elkhorn Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 14, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Juntura Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 14, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Deschutes Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 13, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Aldrich Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 13, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Elkhorn Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 14, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the Juntura Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 14, 2025
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The FRWA was created by a licensing agreement signed in 1957 and modified in 1982 and 2008, between the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Oregon Game Commission. This agreement authorized the state to develop, conserve, and manage all wildlife resources on 5,261 acres of land and water within the Fern Ridge Project. ODFW also acquired the 309 acre Coyote Creek South and 224 acre Coyote Creek Northeast units in 2013 and 2015, respectively. The wildlife area now totals 5,794 acres.
February 26, 2018
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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.
Species and Subspecies
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
Species and Subspecies
Species and Subspecies
Species and Subspecies
Features: Overall, medium-gray with a white underside. Gray, bushy tail has a white "halo." Habitat: It is commonly associated with mixed forest communities in central Wasco, Jefferson, Deschutes, and Klamath counties west, except for unforested portions of the Willamette Valley, to central Washington, Benton, Lane, Douglas, Coos, and Curry counties. It is active at all seasons and exhibits diurnal activity almost exclusively. Techniques: Most hunters use a small caliber rifle, and aim for the head to avoid ruining the meat.
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"I was out hunting near a reserve, and I shot a white-tailed deer. I didn’t know it was a white-tailed deer. The rules don’t say what kind of deer to hunt, they just say a deer, and I shot a deer, but I guess it’s a white-tail. What do I do now?" "Do I have to turn myself in to OSP?" -- recent call to ODFW
December 8, 2020
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Fox Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 14, 2025
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Find maps, boundary descriptions and hunts available in the new Northeast Hunt Area. Download printable PDF map
November 15, 2025
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The Columbia Basin Wildlife Areas are a composition of four Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (department) managed wildlife areas located along the Columbia River, in the Columbia Basin. The four wildlife areas (Power City, Irrigon, Coyote Springs and Willow Creek) are within the Columbia Plateau ecoregion. Management agreements for these areas were initially established between 1971 and 1977 between the department and Federal agencies which own the lands. The Columbia Basin Wildlife Areas, which total approximately 1,885 acres, provide an important landbase for the conservation and recreation of fish and wildlife within a highly privatized and altered landscape and
February 21, 2018
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Resuming in 2022, successful bear hunters must appear in-person at an ODFW office to check in their bear's skull.
