Warming air and water temperatures have led state fish managers to cancel planned releases of hatchery-bred rainbow trout scheduled this month for Jackson County's Expo Pond and Lake Selmac in Josephine County.

Southern Oregon's growing fleet of halibut anglers have side-stepped fishing under a quota this year under draft season frameworks expected to be adopted today.

A consortium of fly-fishing clubs in Southern Oregon has pooled resources to fly in a Canadian stillwater fly-fishing expert for a series of appearances and a fishing workshop at one of the Northwest's best fly-fishing lakes.

And then there were three.

The Fisher's Ferry boat ramp — not the old Gold Ray Dam site — is the new lower boundary of the upper Rogue River, one of a handful of changes to area sport-fishing regulations this year.

High school seniors who want to earn money for college next July but don't want to spend their summer indoors can apply with the Siskiyou Mountain Club to help clear trails in the Kalmiopsis and Soda Mountain wilderness areas.

Nearly a month has gone by since a Shady Cove man caught the first Rogue River spring chinook salmon of the year, within 100 yards of the Cole Rivers Hatchery collection pond, and still none have entered the hatchery.

With the season for riding all-terrain vehicles right around the corner, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is reminding parents that they need to get their younger riders through a required online course and a hands-on training before they can ride their ATVs or off-road motorcycles on public land.

Spring has sprung this week for Southern Oregon trout anglers who will get a fresh start at fresh rainbows at several local lakes during the spring-break vacation.

A Pendleton man paid a record $48,000 for an Oregon combination deer and elk hunt auctioned March 1 in Las Vegas as part of a fundraiser to boost big-game management in the state.