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20 NOrTHWEST OrEgON gOOSE TEST All goose hunters in the Northwest General Zone, in addition to the Northwest Permit Zone, are required to pass the Northwest Oregon Goose Test and carry their Northwest Oregon Goose permit while goose hunting . Northwest General Zone goose hunters do not need to carry a goose harvest card and do not need to check geese at check stations . Northwest General Zone hunters need to observe the shooting hours on page 13 and should avoid shooting dusky geese . To take the Northwest Oregon Goose Test, please visit our Web site at: www .dfw .state .or .us/resources/hunting/waterfowl/goosepermits to take an online exam . If you have previously passed the exam and your permit has not been invalidated you do not need to retake this exam . Hunters must have a Hunter/Angler ID number prior to taking the exam . If you have never had a number assigned to you by purchasing an Oregon hunting or fishing license, please email license .services@state .or .us or call 503-947-6100 . When emailing, please include your full name, gender, date of birth, resident and mailing address, telephone number and note if you are a resident or nonresident . Any hunter wishing to review training materials to prepare for the exam may download them from the department’s goose testing Web site at the above address . A text only version of the study guide may be requested by calling 503- 947-6301 and the video (or a DVD), “Pacific Northwest Goose Management,” is available for $10 plus $2 shipping and handling by calling 1-800-845-9448 (Visa and Mastercard only . . .no checks or cash) . The training materials will greatly enhance your chance of success in passing the examination . Persons who do not have the ability to take an online test should call 503-947-6324 to arrange an appointment to take an exam in-person . You will receive notification of your test results immediately . If you successfully pass the exam, you may obtain your permit from any POS agent three days after passing your test . You have up to three chances per season to pass the exam with 80% correct or better . Individual test scores will not be made available . The Department encourages hunters to not purposefully target collared geese. In most cases these birds are part of important flyway research or population assessments that are used to set hunting regulations. In addition, hunters are encouraged to refrain from looking for leg bands on landing or standing geese and then shooting those individual birds. Purposeful targeting of marked birds will lead to: v Increased uncertainty about population size by removing collared birds. Collars are commonly placed on birds as a way of estimating population size. v Over estimation of harvest and under estimation of survival rates will occur by purposefully harvesting individuals HUNT SAFELY HUNT RESPONSIBLY Every hunter has the responsibility to enter the field well prepared to hunt in a safe ethical manner; the future of our hunting heritage depends on it. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wearing leg bands. If a bird is marked with a leg band only, the bird is likely part of a study to determine the harvest rate or a survival estimate for population. This can also have impacts on duck harvest estimations. Both of these have the potential to reduce hunter opportunity through reduced bag limits and or season length because of uncertainties of population status and harvest rates. In very limited cases, managers may ask hunters to take collared birds to increase harvest. Further information can be obtained at any department hunter check station or on our website. The Department realizes most bands and some collars are not observed before a hunter takes a bird, and it is perfectly acceptable to take a marked bird in this way. If you do take a marked bird please be sure to report the band and or collar information to the United States Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab by calling 1-800-327-BAND (2263) or by reporting it via the internet at www.reportband.gov THE FOUR PRIMARY RULES OF FIREARM SAFETY MUZZLE- Control the direction of your muzzle at all times TRIGGER- Keep your finger outside of the trigger guard until ready to shoot ACTION- Treat every firearm as though it were loadedopen the action and visually check if it is loaded TARGET- Be sure of your target and what is in front of it and beyond it WEAR HUNTER ORANGE Most firearm incidents during big game hunting are vision related - a hunter is shot because they were not seen. Hunter orange clothing makes it much easier for one hunter to recognize another hunter because nothing in nature matches this color. All hunters ages 17 and below must wear a hunter orange hat or vest while hunting big game and upland game birds (except turkey) with any firearm. ODFW strongly encourages you to wear HUNTER ORANGE. Check us out on Facebook at www.facebook.com\odfwoutdoors or visit the ODFW Outdoors section of our website at www.dfw.state.or.us
■ Open Area: Statewide UPLAND GAME BIRDS ■ Open Season: Sept . 1, 2012- Mar . 31, 2013 ■ Daily Bag Limit: » One pheasant (either sex) » Two California quail » Two Hungarian (Gray) partridge » Two chukar partridge » Two ruffed grouse » Two blue grouse ■ Possession Limit: Double the daily bag limit . SAGE GROUSE ■ Open Area:Those areas open to controlled sage grouse hunting . See page 14 . ■ Open Season: Sept .1, 2012- Jan . 31, 2013 ■ Daily Bag Limit: One sage grouse . ■ Season Limit: Two sage grouse . MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS & CROWS DUCKS, COOTS AND MERGANSERS ■ Open Area: Statewide ■ Open Season: See dates for individual zones listed in open areas on pages 16-17 . ■ Daily Bag Limit: Three ducks, coots, mergansers, singly or in combination . ■ Possession Limit: Double the daily bag limit . MOURNING DOVE AND BAND-TAILED PIGEON ■ Open Area: Statewide ■ Open Season: Sept . 1 - Dec . 16, 2012 ■ Daily Bag Limit: Three, not more than one may be a pigeon . ■ Possession Limit: Six, not more than one may be a pigeon . FalCONry rEgUlaTiONS Falconers must possess a valid falconry license, an Oregon hunting license and all applicable permits, validations and stamps for wildlife they will be hunting . See page 9 for permit, validation and stamp requirements . Falconers wanting to hunt on state WAs should refer to specific regulations on pages 30-36 and hunt dates on pages 14-17 . BLUE-GREEN ALGAE POISONING Blue-green algae produce a toxin that has caused mortalities in bighorn sheep, elk, deer, and upland birds . The same toxins can also affect domestic animals including hunting dogs and livestock . When water sources become stagnant and water temperatures rise, blue-green algae blooms can occur with devastating consequences . Algal blooms and toxins may not be visible or they may form a bloom so dense the surface of the water appears blue-green . As a precaution against blue-green algae poisoning and other pathogens like giardia, hunters and their dogs should never drink untreated, standing water . Hunters should carry water for their dogs if they will be spending extended time afield . Hunters that find large numbers of dead animals near water sources are asked to report the incident to the nearest ODFW office . SNIPE ■ Open Area: Statewide ■ Open Season: See dates for individual zones listed in open areas on pages 16-17 . ■ Daily Bag Limit: Three ■ Possession Limit: Six CROWS ■ Open Area: Statewide ■ Open Season: Oct . 1, 2012 - Jan . 31, 2013 ■ Daily Bag Limit: Three ■ Possession Limit: Six GEESE ■ Open Area: Northwest Oregon General Zone; Southwest Oregon General Zone; Lake and Harney Cos Zone; Malheur Co Zone; Klamath Co Zone; South Coast Zone and the Eastern Oregon Zone . See zone descriptions on page 17 . No hunting is allowed within the Northwest Oregon Permit Zone or during any Sept . goose season . ■ Open Season: See dates for individual zones listed in open areas on pages 16 and 17 . ■ Daily Bag Limit: One goose, except black brant ■ Possession Limit: Two geese Note: Federal law states the following: “Falconry daily bag and possession limits for all permitted migratory game birds shall not exceed three and six, respectively, singly, or in the aggregate . . .” When the season for dove, pigeons, crow and/or for snipe overlaps that for waterfowl, the falconer’s bag may contain not more than three of all the federally regulated species (dove, pigeon, duck, merganser, geese, coot, crow and snipe) . Restrictions for pigeons and geese would also apply . Call law enforcement, USFWS, 503-521-5300 for further information . “It’s Your Nature” In 2012, we proudly observe 75 years of the Wildlife and Sport Celebrating Fish Restoration 75 years programs of partnership and the for success American of wildlife working through partnerships to conserve and manage fish and wildlife and their habitats for the use and enjoyment of current and future generations . With your support, the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program will continue to conserve habitat for fish and wildlife, and recreational opportunities for anglers, boaters, hunters, and shooters for the future . By purchasing your license you are contributing to this important work and we thank you . On September 2, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (now the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act). At a difficult time when the country was still reeling from an economic crash, Senator Key Pittman from Nevada and Congressman A. Willis Robertson co-sponsored the Pittman- Robertson bill for wildlife restoration, a radical, unprecedented law that paved the way for a stable, secure program of wildlife conservation across the nation, by diverting an excise tax on sporting guns and ammunition to fund future wildlife restoration. This Act fostered partnerships between federal and state fish and wildlife agencies, the sporting arms industry, conservation groups, and sportsmen and sportswomen to benefit Oregon Department wildlife, of Fish and and has Wildlife been key to implementing the North American Model of Wildlife 21 Conservation. In 1950, the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act (now the Dingell- Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act) passed. Together, the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program has contributed more than $12 billion to fish and wildlife conservation in the U.S.—more than any other single conservation effort. Falconry Page 21
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