Sep 2, 2022
Amy Patrick is the policy director for the Oregon Hunter's Association. As such, she represents a lot of voices who are very passionate about the outdoors broadly and specifically about hunting. But many of us have forgotten everything we learned in that high school civics class we took 30 years ago. In this episode, we...
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...
Aug 20, 2020
Dr. Shaun Clements is at the interface between science and policy, where he looks at things like the impacts of climate change on our oceans, rivers and the fish that live there. Ultimately he helps create policy based on the scientific data he collects and sees. While many think of climate change as something that...
Aug 13, 2020
Like watching sausage being made, legislation isn't the prettiest of processes to delve into. But two major conservation bills have been moving through Congress, one of which was signed into law recently, and they have major ramifications for America's natural resources. ODFW's Conservation Policy Coordinator,...