Oregon lawmakers have voted to increase the state’s lodging tax in order to help fund wildlife conservation. The tax increase ...

More than 320 species of plants and animals living in Oregon are in need of greater protection, according to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, up from 294 about a decade ago, the last time ...

The Oregon Senate passed a bill March 4 to increase the hotel tax to pay for an array of wildlife conservation programs.

Smelt dipping will be allowed in the Sandy River from the mouth up to the Stark Street Bridge on Wednesday between noon and 7 p.m. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the short season ...

As part of its ongoing plan to prevent the entanglements, last year, the state of Oregon mandated that commercial crabbing operations reduce the number of pots they deploy and stick to shallower ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) have ...

SALEM, Ore. - The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (ODFW) Fish Restoration and Enhancement Board is set to meet on Thursday, March 5. The meeting will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the ...

Oregon has a long history of unsuccessfully trying to eradicate invasive species. The state came within one day of announcing it was free of feral swine in 2022. But then another wild pig appeared.

When Oregon’s short legislative session convenes in early February, conservation advocates will once again try to convince lawmakers to pass a major funding bill that could provide nearly $30 million ...

The latest lawsuit is part of nearly 20-year fight to protect the red tree vole that has lost 65% of its Oregon Coast old-growth habitat to logging and wildfire. Conservation groups are again going to ...