Since the state legislative session adjourned in June, the natural resources portfolio at the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) has been active implementing AOC’s policy priorities passed during the 2023 session and queuing up [...]
Last week, ODFW advanced temporary rules restricting fishing in inland waters for salmon, steelhead, and trout as well as sturgeon (to be addressed in a separate temporary rule following additional coordination with Washington State). The [...]
Counties will continue to carry a burden of funding federal Wildlife Services for predator control, but with some added help from the state. The budgets for the 2015-17 biennium for the departments of Agriculture and [...]