My Best Friend Always Wears a Fur Coat

Author: Don E. Webster Report Date: November 12, 2017 Like many waterfowlers, I’ve been around hunting dogs as long as I can remember. More than likely, when I came home from the hospital as a newborn, there was a hunting dog of some sort riding with me and my...

Rattle-N-Roll: A Young Buck Story

Author: Jason Haley Report Date: November 8, 2017 Cory Page (50), of Phoenix, and his son, Eli do things the old fashioned way. They hunt when their busy work and school/sports schedules allow, almost always on weekends. They stay close to home in Siskiyou foothills of southern Oregon,...

Tag Soup

Author: Chris Thomas Report Date: November 6, 2017 As the 2017 deer season closed I stood at a crossroads. In awe, I looked down over the fog-filled ravine with the sun inching closer to the smoky horizon and wondered how such a beautiful sight could leave me with...

Fall Turkey Season Coming Up

Author: John Higley Report Date: November 6, 2017 Okay guys, the annual fall turkey season is almost upon us. It begins on November 11 and will run until December 10. The limit is one turkey of either sex per day--two per season. After an unproductive...

OSP investigates wolf killed by elk hunter - Union County

Author: ODFW Report Date: November 3, 2017 PREVIEW News Release from Oregon State Police Preview posted on FlashAlert: November 2nd, 2017 9:56 AM n October 27, 2017 at about 11:30AM, an OSP Fish and Wildlife Trooper and an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Biologist responded to the...

Let Them Shoot 20 GA. Guns

Author: Don E. Webster Report Date: November 1, 2017 On occasion, during the advance of old age, practicality and common sense meet up with reality. No doubt about it. It's a beautiful thing. During my 74 years, I've covered countless fields, hills, dales, bogs, and marshes for over five decades...

Waterfowl Hunting Opportunities at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve

Author: CDFW Report Date: October 31, 2017 The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering waterfowl hunting opportunities at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER) in Hayward during the 2017-18 season. The reserve includes former commercial salt ponds now managed by CDFW as low-salinity water bird...

Wild Pheasant Hunting Season Opener Nears

Author: CDFW Report Date: October 29, 2017 The second weekend of November brings a popular tradition for many families in California – the opening of pheasant season. Although the overall wild pheasant population has been decreasing in recent years and the number of hunt days has been reduced...

New Laws Enhance Poaching Penalties to Better Protect Wildlife

Author: CDFW Report Date: October 25, 2017 As many big game hunting seasons progress into the fall, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officers have a new tool to deter poaching and punish violators for serious poaching crimes. Legislation sponsored by the wildlife conservation community approved enhancements...

ODFW Steps up 'Chronic Wasting Disease' Monitoring Efforts

Author: ODFW Report Date: October 24, 2017 ODFW is increasing its monitoring of deer and elk herds for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease that has never been detected in Oregon’s cervids but is spreading in North America. The disease is caused by a protein prion...

Alaskan Duck Hunt

Author: Don E. Webster Report Date: October 20, 2017 My son, Cody, and I recently went on a duck hunt to Alaska. We flew out of Sacramento, California on October 1st and landed in Anchorage, Alaska, where we rented a car and drove north for 45 minutes to Wasilla,...

Reaching Elk Miles Away

Author: Frank Biggs Report Date: October 15, 2017 Alone and still, I'm glassing ridges just shortly after noon, my favorite time to glass for elk. The country is vast with B.L.M. and National Forest for miles in all directions. I've been glassing for about 30 minutes...