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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2017
Report deer, elk tags to ODFW to avoid penalty
Any hunter who purchased
2016 big game or turkey tags
needs to report their hunt
results by Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Hunters are required to
report on each deer, elk, cougar,
bear, pronghorn and turkey tag
purchased — even if they were
not successful or did not hunt.
Sports Pac license holders need
to report on each big game or
turkey tag issued.
Hunters have two ways to
report:
• Online at www.odfw.com
or at reportmyhunt.com, either
at home or by visiting an
ODFW office with a computer
available for Hunter Reporting.
• By phone, call 1-866-947-
6339 to talk to a customer serv-
ice representative from 6 a.m.
to 10 p.m., seven days a week.
Reporting deadlines are:
• Jan. 31, for all 2016 hunts
that ended by Dec. 31, 2016;
• April 15, for all 2016 hunts
that end between Jan. 1 to
March 31, 2017.
Hunters need the following
pieces of information to report,
which takes just a couple of
minutes:
• Hunter/Angler ID number
(located on ODFW licenses,
tags and applications; this is a
permanent number that stays
the same from year-to-year)
• The two-digit Wildlife
Management Unit (WMU)
number of the Unit you hunted
in most and the Unit you har-
vested an animal in if success-
ful.
• The total number of days
hunted (including mentoring
youth), the number of days
hunted in the WMU hunted
most, and the number of days
hunted in the WMU you har-
vested an animal in if success-
ful.
Hunters who fail to report
2016 deer or elk tags on time
will be penalized $25 when
they purchase a 2018 hunting
license.
This penalty is assessed
once, regardless of the number
of unreported tags.
As of Jan. 10, about 53 per-
cent of elk tags and 51 percent
of deer tags had been reported
for hunts with a Jan. 31 report-
ing deadline. ODFW will be
sending reminder postcards to
hunters who haven’t reported
yet later this month.
“The information hunters
provide is needed to evaluate
hunting seasons and tag num-
bers,” said ODFW Game
Program
Manager
Tom
Thornton. “We really appreci-
ate hunters taking a few min-
utes of their time to complete
the report.”
ODFW used to get this data
through phone surveys but
these became more difficult
and expensive as hunters
moved or screened their calls.
The mandatory reporting
program was put in place in
2007 so these calls could be
phased out.
A penalty of $25 was added
four years ago because even
after several years promoting
the program and providing
incentives to report, only about
40 percent of tags were being
reported on time.
This rate was too low to for
ODFW to even use the data.
After the penalty was imple-
mented for 2012 tags, rates
jumped to 80 percent or more.
This has allowed ODFW to
phase out its big game survey
phone calls.
The funds generated by
penalty fees are being used to
increase Oregon State Police
patrol and enforcement of win-
ter range closures in Oregon.
These closures help deer, elk
and other wildlife survive the
winter by limiting disturbances
from people.
As an incentive to report on
time, hunters that do are
entered into a drawing to win a
special big game tag.
ODFW selects three names
each year and the winners can
choose a deer, elk or pronghorn
tag.
Hunters who win may hunt
an expanded hunt area and
extended season, similar to
auction and raffle tags that
hunters can pay thousands for.
One of this year’s winners,
Brent Quick of Springfield,
chose an elk tag and took a bull
in Wenaha Unit.
“It was one of my top five
best days, to kill my first elk
with good friends,” he said. “I
now have 330 pounds of elk in
my freezer to feed a family of
five, pretty cool.”
For more information, visit
www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/
hunting/reporting/index.asp.
Oregon State Marine Board seeks public input on new facility plan
ing.
This information is compiled
into the “Statewide Boating
Access Improvement Plan,”
commonly referred to as the
“Six-Year Plan.”
The agency invites boaters to
participate in a survey to help
identify where the needs are
around the state.
“With over 1,100 boating
access sites in Oregon operated
and owned by more than 160
different recreational boating
facility owners, the Marine
Board relies heavily on feed-
back about the condition of
boating facilities from all recre-
ational boaters,” said Janine
Belleque, Boating Facility
Manager for the Marine Board.
The Oregon Marine Board
invites recreational boaters to
complete an online survey and
provide feedback on how to
improve the area where you
boat.
Boaters can access an online
survey at www.boatoregon.
com, or go to the survey direct-
ly at www.surveymonkey.com
/r/GWGC7L6.
The survey will be available
online through March 31.
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