Outdoors

Outdoors

• Ocean Outlook: Nov. 19, 2009 - 11/19/2009

  COASTWIDE - Small-craft advisories, hazardous sea warnings and gale-wind warnings are in effect across the Oregon Coast into the weekend.

• Lake Outlook: Nov. 19, 2009 - 11/19/2009

  AGATE - The lake remains low, but fishing is fair for the 500 large rainbows and 150 trophy rainbows stocked there recently.

• 2009 Wild Bird Photo Contest underway - 11/19/2009

  The 2009 Oregon Outdoors Wild Bird Photo Contest is under way.

  
• Hunting camps mean Dutch-oven cooking - 11/19/2009

  Fall means hunting season, which means the time for serious camping is at hand.

  
• Chetco reopens despite falling chinook numbers - 11/19/2009

  BROOKINGS — Chinook salmon anglers will be on the Chetco River for the first time — though not for long — beginning today after...

• Rockin' with witcheties and oompalumps - 11/19/2009

  Have you ever seen the masked witchety? How about the oompalump? Living deep within the marsh, oompalumps can be a challenge to see.

• Going wild in Oregon - 11/19/2009

  If you'd like to get out in the wilderness, but aren't quite sure whether you've got the know-how, you need to find someone who can give you a hand,...

• Oregon survey finds record number of snowy plovers - 11/19/2009

  SALEM — Population numbers for a threatened shore bird on the Oregon Coast are looking up.

• New whitewater rule will require life jackets be worn - 11/19/2009

  The Oregon State Marine Board is taking public comment on proposed rules that will require boaters to wear personal-flotation devices when navigating...

• Hunting Outlook: Nov. 19, 2009 - 11/19/2009

  JACKSON - Late-season bow hunters should focus on lower elevation areas, especially around oak grasslands.

• River Outlook: Nov. 19, 2009 - 11/19/2009

  ROGUE - The upper Rogue is a bit slow for summer steelhead now that the chinook spawn is over and the steelhead are less apt to be so myopically...

• Get Out: Nov. 19, 2009 - 11/19/2009

  Sierra Club hikes

• It could change your life - 11/12/2009

  It's time again for bird lovers and nature photographers to show their stuff.

  
• Chetco closure makes Oregon anglers antsy - 11/12/2009

  Continued low-water conditions on Southern Oregon's Chetco River likely will mean that an emergency closure will remain in effect through the weekend...

• Whale Watch training to start soon - 11/12/2009

  Training for volunteer whale watchers opens Dec. 5 and 6 in Newport for the winter Whale Watch Week that runs Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.

• Alone on the mountain - 11/12/2009

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• Doerner Fir Trail - 11/12/2009

  Short family hikes this time of year can be difficult.

• 'Adopt a drain' Saturday to help Bear Creek fish - 11/12/2009

  The Oregon Stewardship program plans a Saturday afternoon work party to expand its "Adopt a Drain" program aimed at curbing polluted runoff from the...

• Young boy's hunt 'was the best thing ever' - 11/12/2009

  GRANTS PASS — Ethan Swiger and his grandfather drove the Josephine County backroads together Nov.