The bill passed with bipartisan support, despite fierce resistance from the Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association and other business groups.

Wildlife managers must calculate specific statewide bag limits to ensure an animal’s annual growth never tips into a permanent decline. Age ratios and population numbers that traverse states are only ...

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

SALEM — Some Oregon landowners will get more landowner preference hunting tags for mule deer under a new system the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission approved Jan. 16. The new system was prompted by ...

Two fully adult angry male Sambar deer fighting with their big long large antlers showing dominance at Ranthambore National park or tiger reserve, India.© Sourabh Bharti/Shutterstock.com Why are ...

House Bill 4134 would raise Oregon’s lodging tax by 1.25% — from 1.5% to 2.75% It's supported by an eclectic mix of Republicans and Democrats The bill's goal is fund programs aimed at helping Oregon ...

In all of Oregon’s natural areas, this would be a first. A proposed wildlife area in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon would be co-managed by state officials and the Confederated Tribes of the ...

Where Washington, Idaho and Oregon meet, elk are straying from public to private lands, causing conflict and concern. If the Trump administration opens national forests further, it could get worse.

Increasing the tax would “create an important source of dedicated funding to sustain our wildlife, wildland, and recreation ...

A female wildlife biologist setting a camera trap in the forest© AlvaroGO/Shutterstock.com Hunting limits aren’t arbitrary—they‘re determined using highly specific data points. They are determined on ...