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Some general season elk units in Oregon could shift to controlled archery hunting if the proposed changes by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) are approved. The changes would go into effect for the 2022 archery elk seasons. Officials say the switch could help “better manage elk populations and more equitably distribute necessary harvest reductions between rifle and archery hunters,” the Argus Observer reports.
“We have tried to craft a solution that addresses the problems we are seeing in some units, while continuing to retain as much general season opportunity as possible,” said Jeremy Thompson, the ODFW district wildlife biologist for the Mid-Columbia. Thompson is managing the elk archery review. “We recognize that any change we propose will impact hunters, but we will also be impacting hunters if we do not make a change.