Outdoors
Rivers, forests, parks, recreation, and the natural environment.
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Buck season ends Nov. 6; coast bull elk rifle seasons open Nov. 14 and Nov. 21
Western Oregon rifle deer season closes next Friday. The two general coast elk seasons follow, with tag deadlines the day before each opens.
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Razor clams are closed on the whole coast and the crab season test starts next week
Domoic acid has shut razor clamming from Washington to California. Mussels, bay clams, and bay crabbing are open. Commercial Dungeness testing the week of Nov. 3 will decide whether the…
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Mussels, cuttings, and a tree planting: Scappoose Bay Watershed Council’s November lineup
A Zoom forum on Oregon’s native freshwater mussels, two work parties, a free native plant propagation class, and a tree planting on Scappoose Creek near Veterans Park.
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Five ways to get your hands dirty for Scappoose Bay this fall
The council has five public events through Nov. 14 and is starting construction on a South Scappoose Creek restoration at Chief Concomly Park. Its fish passage work has opened more…
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Duck season rules on Sauvie Island: what’s open, what’s closed, where to park
The Westside, Eastside and Oak Island units are hunter-only on reservation days from Oct. 17 through Jan. 31, and parts of the wildlife area are closed to everyone else until…
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Best coho fishing on the lower Columbia right now is our stretch
ODFW’s Oct. 17 creel count found the best coho fishing on the lower Columbia in the Warrior Rock to Longview stretch, with 69 boats and 50 coho kept. Chinook must…
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Port losing $550,000 a year on Scappoose Bay Marina hands it to private operator
The Port of Columbia County says it lost about $550,000 a year running the marina. Under a three-year lease approved Oct. 14, the owners of Fred’s Marina in Portland take…
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Nehalem fall Chinook fishing is decent; wild coho season in Nehalem Bay runs through Oct. 28
Fall Chinook fishing in the Nehalem has remained fair to good with fish caught daily, and the wild coho season in Nehalem Bay runs through Oct. 28, according to ODFW’s…