Each December, Ed Miguez with the Oregon Department of Wildlife, drives the feed truck 150 miles a day to reach 10 feeding stations across the 12,000acre Elkhorn Wildlife Area that sprawls across ...

It’s a series of 10 winter elk-feeding stations, ranging from Old Auburn Lane southwest of Baker City to Shaw Mountain in Union County, operated by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW).

Across the refuge, a wildlife team daily stocks nine feeding stations along a 150-mile-long loop through the vast 12,000-acre mountain refuge that’s located near North Powder.

Winter elk feeding tours are back at Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area after a two-year pause. Each winter, the wildlife area, which is located near Seaside and Astoria, provides supplemental feed to ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — During the 2023 deer and elk hunting seasons, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will increase sampling efforts for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) throughout the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An orphaned elk calf that turned up at a Pacific City ranch in March, was recently accepted by a herd of elk after spending nearly nine months living with a herd of angus beef cows.

Over the last 30 years, the elk population along Oregon’s northern coast has ballooned. An elk sighting used to be an unexpected thrill, ... Among them: fines to stop people feeding the animals.

It usually takes about 10 minutes for officials to test the meat at check stations. Samples are gathered from a collection of lymph nodes in an animal’s head. Chronic wasting disease affects ...