Desolation Unit News Today

Deadline to apply for an Oregon controlled or premium hunt SALEM, Ore. — Don’t wait until the last minute to apply for a controlled or premium hunt as the May 15 deadline falls on a Saturday this year. The online licensing system will process applications until 11:59 p.m. on May 15, and license vendors will also be selling applications. But ODFW licensing staff will not be available to help hunters who wait until Saturday and encounter problems accessing their account. “We are urging hun...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified a new area of known wolf activity in the Murderers Creek Wildlife Unit of Eastern Oregon. Ryan Torland, an ODFW district wildlife biologist, said the area in southern Grant County east of Seneca has seen at least two different wolves over the past three years. One was black, he said, and it appears to have moved on about a year or two ago. He told the EO Media Group a gray wolf started to show up roughly a year ago. Torland said this was...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife identified a new area of known wolf activity in the Murderers Creek Wildlife Unit. Ryan Torland, an ODFW district wildlife biologist, said the area in southern Grant County east of Seneca has seen at least two different wolves over the past three years. One was black, he said, and it appears to have moved on about a year or two ago. He told the Eagle a gray wolf started to show up roughly a year ago. Torland said this was throughout the winter and then...