Are You Doing Your Oregon Hunter Mandatory Reporting?
Did you know that reporting on your hunt in Oregon is mandatory? You didn’t? Well, most other hunters don’t either. Oregon requires hunters to contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife after a hunt to record their experience. The goal of this exercise is for the state to get a better gauge of the population year to year so that they can make assessments on the number of tags to issue the next year. However, most hunters neglect to do this. The reasons are twofold: 1.) Many hunters have never had to do this before and don’t know they should do it now and 2.) Though reporting is mandatory, there is no penalty for not doing so. The requirement gets chalked up to being somewhat of an idle threat.
Regardless, the reporting process is quick and painless and does actually help the sport as a whole if hunters would take the time to do it. Below is what you need to know to report your hunts to the ODFW.
Online:
Go to www.dfw.state.or.us
Click on hunting
Click on Mandatory Reporting OR My Hunter Information
Phone:
(866) 947-6339
You’ll need this information for reporting:
- Hunter/Angler ID number
- Two-digit Wildlife Management Unit number of unit hunted the most
- Number of days hunted
- Number of day shunted in the WMU
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