In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness goes deep on the record coho salmon runs in the Upper Willamette Basin. Urness talks with Chris Kern, the west region manager for the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — While a controversial southern Oregon dam may delay the migration of a threatened species of salmon, the impact isn’t significant enough to violate federal environmental laws, a ...

September’s coho rodeo off the central Oregon coast just got rowdy for a little longer. The preseason quota for an any-coho season, 25,000 legal-sized fish, has been boosted to 30,700. Beginning Sept.

The number of coho salmon returning to the Upper Willamette Basin smashed records for the second year in a row, but it wasn't necessarily a bonanza for anglers. A total of 53,169 adult coho passed the ...

Another small dam has been removed in Southern Oregon to improve fish habitat. The 150-foot-wide, 5-foot-high Williams-Whalen Dam on Evans Creek was demolished last week about 12.7 miles upriver from ...

Since Oregon coast coho were first listed as Threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1998, habitat restoration and careful hatchery and harvest management have helped recover the ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks with Debbie Colbert, director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Colbert became the first female director of ODFW, an ...