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Isn't Oregon amazing?!
11/02/2026

Isn't Oregon amazing?!

Meet the Miller Lake Lamprey: the smallest landlocked parasitic lamprey in the world! 👋

This tiny Oregon native, found only in the upper Klamath Basin, has a fascinating (and relatively recent!) story of being persecuted and brought back. Catch our latest Fish of the Week podcast episode (airs later today) to get the full scoop and deepen your knowledge about/appreciation for native lampreys. Our guest is Ben Clemens, Statewide Lamprey Coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can catch this episode (and hundreds of others) on our FWS website or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎣🐟

A Miller Lake Lamprey caught in Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. 📷 Charlee Cramer

Even elk can get into the spooky spirit.Happy Halloween from ODFW!  [📷]  Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton, Astoria Parks...
10/31/2026

Even elk can get into the spooky spirit.

Happy Halloween from ODFW!

[📷] Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton, Astoria Parks & Recreation

FYI
10/28/2026

FYI

For the first time in 20 years, anglers should be able to keep yelloweye rockfish next year. Following decades of recove...
10/27/2026

For the first time in 20 years, anglers should be able to keep yelloweye rockfish next year. Following decades of recovery efforts, yelloweye rockfish were recently declared rebuilt, opening the door to limited recreational and commercial harvest opportunities. ODFW Commissioners will decide in December about allowing retention of one yelloweye rockfish during May in the recreational fishery and limited commercial fishing for yelloweye rockfish.

The success story is part of a Team effort that included sport anglers and commercial fishermen, state and federal scientists, coastal communities, universities, marine science groups and councils.

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ATTENTION DEER AND ELK HUNTERS!Get your animals tested for CWD this weekend and upcoming weekends at these locations.Chr...
10/27/2026

ATTENTION DEER AND ELK HUNTERS!

Get your animals tested for CWD this weekend and upcoming weekends at these locations.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal disease infecting deer, elk, and moose across North America. While CWD has not yet been detected in Oregon, it has been found in three bordering states – Idaho, California, and Washington. We have a chance to manage CWD if both hunters and wildlife managers work together. Get your animals tested and educate yourself and others about CWD.

EDITOR's NOTE: Celio should be Celilo Park

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Do you recognize these character’s from LAIKA Studios newest film “Wildwood?”The stop-animation film, an adaptation of C...
10/23/2026

Do you recognize these character’s from LAIKA Studios newest film “Wildwood?”

The stop-animation film, an adaptation of Colin Meloy’s book, “Wildwood,” illustrated by Carson Ellis, features many of Oregon’s most well-known critters and opens today, October 23.

If you go see the movie this weekend, we hope you get outside to see some of the real-life, wild inspiration for these movie characters.

Beavers are fantastic engineers, sometimes too good, in fact. Sometimes you have to level the playing field, or, in this...
10/19/2026

Beavers are fantastic engineers, sometimes too good, in fact. Sometimes you have to level the playing field, or, in this case, the pond.

🐛🍂Leave the Leaves!🍁🪲Stick season is around the corner, which means that all those leaves are or will be dropping to the...
10/14/2026

🐛🍂Leave the Leaves!🍁🪲

Stick season is around the corner, which means that all those leaves are or will be dropping to the ground.

Cue the leaf blowers. Does anyone own a rake anymore?

Great piles of fallen leaves to jump into are not just a fond fall memory, they’re actually an important habitat for many tiny critters that have adapted to life in urban spaces.

Leaves provide shelter, nutrients, and thermal insulation for all kinds of wildlife.

If you love having birds in your hard year round, leave the leaves that produce the bugs that ground-foraging birds love.

If you like Amphibians and reptiles around, leave the leaves for them to seek cover in as they search for places to overwinter.

If you like your soil protected from the erosion that occurs from rain and drizzle, leave the leaves as cover.

If you like complex ecosystems, leave the leaves for the egg cases they hold and the overwintering caterpillars.

If you have to remove the leaves, try leaving them until late spring, when temperatures are mostly consistent. This gives the wildlife that relies on these composting leaves time to live out the parts of their life cycles that are dependent on leaves.

10/07/2026

We’ve been getting a lot of calls this summer about walleye in the Willamette, so mid-Willamette Fish District staff have been surveying the river from Harrisburg to down below Independence and have found an abundance of walleye. These hook & line surveys help to better understand numbers and locations for walleye, age classes, and which techniques work best for catching them.

Trolling a worm spinner or worm harness downriver just faster than the current in 12-18 feet of water is the sweet spot for targeting walleye. Try different color spinners. The best fishing is going to be in early fall and early spring, especially for larger walleye.

Check out the full video on YouTube at the link in our stories.

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4034 Fairview Industrial Drive SE
Keizer, OR
97302

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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+15039476000

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