Agencies, timber companies open lands to hunters today
Public agencies and private landowners today are opening their acreage across the state to hunters with the beginning of major hunting season.

Denman is only pheasant hunting game in town
WHITE CITY — Mark Vargas squints as he marches into a blizzard of feathers and beaks, searching for just the right flash of browns, reds and whites to make it worth risking bloody knuckles.

Anchovies: The misunderstood morsel
Column by Marty Giles

 Record elk?
Bowhunter Shaun Fletcher, of North Bend, poses with a trophy on Sept. 4 Fletcher killed the six- by seven-point elk near Bandon while hunting with a friend.“As soon as we saw him, we said, ‘that’s a haul,’” Fletcher said. The pair called the elk to within 45 yards before shooting it with a compound bow. The elk was 340 points, scored using the Pope and Young method of scoring. According to Fletcher, the bull may be one of the largest ever in the state, but he’s waiting to hear back from Pope and Young. “We’re thinking top 10,” he said.