‘A Volume Thing’: Hunter On Using E-calls For Snows

“And that’s where I was introduced to Layne Staley.” So said our resident waterfowl hunting expert MD Johnson this evening, sending me down the YouTube rabbit hole on a Friday night in mid-February of ’22 as I sought a simple answer about a newly legalized late-season Washington snow goose tactic:
5 Things Pissing Me Off Today

1) Late last month, Robert Lackey, a professor at Oregon State University’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, posted a video listing his top 10 reasons why the Northwest’s wild salmon and steelhead stocks have collapsed and the very, very, very long odds that they’ll ever recover to any real degree, despite all the work we […]
Bios Worry About Low South Coast River Flows, Fish Redds

Biologists on Oregon’s South Coast are worried about low river flows following weeks with little to no rain and which is leaving fish and their redds vulnerable to disturbance.
USFWS To Disburse Record $1.5B From Hunting, Fishing Gear Taxes

USFWS reports it will disburse a record $1.5 billion to fund fish and wildlife conservation and other recreational opportunities from excise taxes collected on angling and hunting equipment and boat fuel.