Dec 23, 2020
ODFW's Deputy Director of Fish and Wildlife Programs is also the Legislative Coordinator, a role Shannon Hurn has held for the last five legislative sessions. The intersection of fish and wildlife management and statewide lawmaking is necessarily complicated. ODFW's role is to inform lawmakers about potential impacts on...
Dec 17, 2020
You may know them from their popular YouTube fishing show, NODR, or you may know them from social media. If you don't know them, you need to know them. They are Keevin Collier Sr., aka Crappie Killa, Dishaun Berry, aka RippinLips, and Damon Collier, aka Westbred Diamond. They're brothers, community builders, fishing...
Dec 10, 2020
In our last myth-busting episode, we debunked myths about Oregon's hatcheries. In this episode, we're doing the same for hunt reporting. There seems to be a lot of confusion about why people have to report their hunt regardless of whether they were successful or not or even if they hunted in the first place. The simple...
Dec 1, 2020
A PhD student at Notre Dame created the hashtag #25DaysOfFishmas in 2016, and the rest, as they say, is history. Five years later, people around the world participate in the tradition of highlighting a new fish species each day day of the first 25 days of December. Katie O'Reilly created the hashtag initially to feature...
Nov 25, 2020
If you live in Oregon, you're probably already familiar with razor clams. One of the most popular, family-friendly recreational activities on the coast, razor clamming is a fun tradition today and the clams have been an important food source on the coast for thousands of years. ODFW Shellfish Project Management Leader...