Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Last week, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the opening of razor clam harvesting on the south coast.  Now the entire Oregon coast is open for razor clam harvesting. Recent shellfish samples taken from the area indicate levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid have fallen below the limit for two consecutive sampling weeks.  Mu... Read Mor

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has authorized lethal removal of four additional wolves from the Chesnimnus Pack in response to continued livestock depredations in Wallowa County.  The newly issued lethal take permit will allow the affected livestock producer or their agents to remove up to four wolves from the Chesnimnus pack in private pastures or grazing allotments legally occupied b

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists shot a yearling male wolf from the Chesnimnus Pack early Friday evening. The operation took place from the ground. With the taking of this second wolf, the active kill permit that allowed the lethal removal of two wolves from the Chesnimnus Pack due to chronic depredation is no longer active ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife was called out to a trio of injured calves founds in the Daly Creek area of Baker County Monday. The three, weighing between 150-250 pounds, were in a 3,000-acre pasture that consists of both public and private lands ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said it will increase its involvement and assist in the lethal removal of one Chesnimnus Pack wolf. A kill permit has already been issued against the NE Oregon pack due to livestock conflict; now the Department may remove a wolf from the ground or the air ...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were called to a depredation in the Coyote Canyon area of Umatilla County earlier this week. On Monday, a sheep herder found a dead 180- pound ewe and a dead 70-pound lamb in a 5,000-acre private-land pasture about one mile from the herder’s camp, where the sheep had been bedded for the night. The ...

Due to the continued significant risk of wolves to livestock in the Wallowa County area, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has extended a kill permit. That permit for the Chesnimnus Pack was set to expire May 24th. This extension means the permit will now be valid until June 14th ...

Investigators with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have been very busy in the John Day area over the past couple of days. On Friday, May 20th, crews were called out to the Middle Fork John Day area of Grant County after a livestock owner found a dead six-month old, 350-pound calf, in a 1200 acre, private-land pasture about 400 yards from his corrals ...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife investigators were called to a depredation in the Balm Creek area of Baker County over the weekend. On Saturday morning, 05/07/22, a livestock producer found an injured calf while moving cattle in a 1000-acre public land allotment ...

After a bit of a lull, wolf depredations have picked up in Oregon. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were called to a pair of depredations in Baker County Monday May 2nd. The first case occurred after a livestock producer found two injured calves while on privately-owned pastureland near the town of Richland ...