Outdoors Articles

ODFW Recreation Report Highlights
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Best bets for free fishing weekend (Feb. 17-18) Lingcod fishing has been “melt-your-face-off-hot” on the Oregon coast Mid-February is when winter steelhead fishing really starts picking up on the Clackamas and Sandy rivers. So if you haven’t been out yet, this would be a good weekend to start. Coos County beaches have been giving up redtail surfperch when the surf conditions allow. Fly-fishers will...
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Are You Ready For the Adventure of a Lifetime?
by George Parker, FEBRUARY 12, 2018

If you are between the ages of 18 and 25 and think you might enjoy an entire summer of living out of a backpack and working trails in the mountains you love, there is still time for you to apply for the CCC/AmeriCorps Backcountry Trails Program. The application deadline is February 15. The Backcountry Trails Program has been run annually by...
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Outlook 2018: The Biggest Water Topics in the West This Year
by Tara Lohan, FEBRUARY 12, 2018

California and other Western states will be grappling with long-term water issues related to infrastructure, clean drinking water systems and watershed restoration, among other concerns. FOR THE NEXT few months much of the talk around water issues in California and the rest of the Western United States will be about how much precipitation falls, the water content of the snowpack and how temperatures...
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Nutria Discovered in San Joaquin Valley; CDFW Seeks to Prevent Further Spread and Infestation
by CDFW, FEBRUARY 10, 2018

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has become aware of a population of invasive nutria (Myocastor coypus) reproducing within the San Joaquin Valley. Given the severity of potential impacts and the impacts realized in other infested states, CDFW believes early intervention actions could be successful in eradicating nutria from the area and is asking the public’s help in...
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Measuring Lobsters the Right Way
California Outdoors Q&A
Carrie Wilson, FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Question: I jumped on an open party lobster trip recently (their counts were high!). The crew members were measuring while all of us were watching up close. The 3 ¼” tool would drop over the carapace and if fairly tight, they claimed it to be a “keeper.” When I politely asked them about this, they were adamant that these were legal...
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Leave a wildlife legacy
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Help support Oregon’s imperiled wildlife by donating to the Nongame Wildlife Fund when completing your 2017 Oregon state tax return or filing your “screen settlement” claim. Join the thousands of Oregonians who have helped protect the fish and wildlife of greatest conservation concern and funded wildlife habitat improvement projects on private and public lands. You’ll help support 88 percent of the...
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