especially Northeastern Oregon and I guess closer to where you are, too – the Columbia Plateau? Thompson: Within the area that recently went controlled hunt – now all of our elk hunting ...

An Oregon elk hunter was killed after a gun went off in the hunting group he was leading, shooting him in the back. John Marshall Nichols, 62, lost his life after the bullet pierced his back and ...

Capt. Doug Kitzmiller, 50, has been on leave since mid-December after state police initiated a criminal misdemeanor ...

For most of northeastern Oregon, the archery season for elk is a controlled hunt for the first time. In August 2021 the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission decided to limit how many permits to ...

Millions of elk used to roam North America ... and they can’t hunt inside a state park,” said Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Paul Atwood. “So a lot of the traditional ...

SURF PINES, Ore. — For seven years, Ken Weist and his wife have watched elk roam through their backyard in the gated Surf Pines neighborhood. “They’re incredible, majestic creatures,” said ...

Wildlife officials said the man had a “late-season cow elk tag and permission from the landowner to hunt ... can also be made by email at TIP@osp.oregon.gov. Nehalem is about 85 miles ...

Cody killed an elk, but Shawn didn’t. The next year, he got another chance. Cody bought the Oregon governor’s tag at auction for $71,000. The tag allows the holder to hunt any part of the ...

elk hunt. Stephanie and another person legally tagged two cow elk, but two calves, two cows and a spike bull were left rotting in high-country sagebrush, according to the Oregon Department of Fish ...

He told Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife troopers he “intended to poach a cow elk for the meat ... better chance of drawing an opportunity to hunt in the future. “Poachers steal from ...