[ODFW-News] Hunters gain access to 2, 400 acres near national wildlife refuge

[Odfw News]

For Immediate Release Monday, May 23, 2005
 
Hunters gain access to 2,400 acres near national wildlife refuge 
 
SALEM - Waterfowl hunters will have open access to 2,400 acres of
private lands near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge through 2010 along
with improved access to about five thousand acres of refuge lands. 
 
In return for public access, landowner Donald Opie has been awarded a
$60,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Access
and Habitat Program.
 
Because much of this area is in private lands where hunting is not
allowed or in fee hunting operations, this agreement provides
significant new public hunting opportunities for ducks and geese. In
addition, the property also offers hunting for pheasants, mule deer and
pronghorn.
 
The Access and Habitat Program is funded by a $2 surcharge on hunting
licenses. Funds raised by the program are distributed through grants to
individual and corporate landowners, conservation organizations and
others for cooperative wildlife habitat improvement and hunter access
projects throughout the state.
 
For information on the A&H Program call program coordinator Nick Myatt,
503-947-6087 or visit the Web site at www.dfw.state.or.us/AH/.
 
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