Are there moose in Oregon?? (Bend, Hermiston: house, move, hunting)

[bye bye cali]

Thanks for the info Freedom.
Google spiders and cougar and bears...oh my!
All this in Corvallis or WV area really? Are there attacks on people. Due to shows like "animals behaving badly" I'm bear phobic but I want to live in or near the country. Should I be afraid?

[oregonready4change]

Don't think anybody has mentioned wolves - yes wolves. They have documented seeing them in Eastern Oregon now. Also, big horns would be another. Seriously, I'm doubting the poster that saw "moose", 12 of them in the road around - I'm going to venture out and saw what Tumbleweedseed saw were elk. Ah yes - stay away from the Jackelope!!

[freedom]

Originally Posted by bye bye cali

Thanks for the info Freedom.
Google spiders and cougar and bears...oh my!
All this in Corvallis or WV area really? Are there attacks on people. Due to shows like "animals behaving badly" I'm bear phobic but I want to live in or near the country. Should I be afraid?

Not really, the bears are pretty shy, sometimes if trash is left available they can get comfortable and familiar. When we were in a single wide trailer years ago, we kept our trash outside our bedroom wall, and a momma bear came and tore the can up, and then pushed on the wall. I looked out the window and she was staring right at me.
I grabbed a flashlight and went out with a rifle and fired it, and she walked away, until I fired it again, then she ran.....
Fish and game trapped it at a neighbors about a half mile away and took it into the forest. I wouldn't feed em.

freedom

[CantWait2Bthere]

What kind of bears are these? Black bears? Grizzlies?

[oregonready4change]

Black bears. No Grizzlies here
See below, taken from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on Black Bears in Oregon:

"Historically, black and grizzly bears (U. arctos) were both native to Oregon; however, the last grizzly bear documented in Oregon was killed in Wallowa County in 1937. Occasionally grizzlies are reported in Oregon but no evidence to substantiate these reports exists. These are likely sightings of light or cinnamon colored Black Bears."

[CantWait2Bthere]

Ya gotta love those cinnamon colored Black bears!

So do you really think it was just a joke or mistake about the 12 moose? Maybe it was a moose family.

[Larry Caldwell]

There may be a few moose in the Blue Mountains or Wallowas in the far NE corner of the state. Both species of elk - Roosevelt elk in the Coast Range, Rocky Mountain Elk in the Cascades and Wallowas, Black tail deer and Columbia white tail in Western Oregon, mule deer east of the Cascades, some interbred mulies and black tail in the cascades, black bear, maybe a grizzlie or two with the moose, cougar, chinook, coho and kokanee salmon, rainbow and cutthroat trout, steelhead, several species of geese and ducks, grouse, quail, snipe, pheasant, hungarian partridge, chukar, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, turkeys, coyotes, wolves, and I probably forgot some.

Yes, there are eagles, hawks, falcons, osprey, turkey vultures, etc. They range througout the state.

The western rattler is common in Southern Oregon, rare in the Willamette Valley. Timber Rattlers inhabit the Cascades. Black Widow and Hobo spiders, plus some harmless and absolutely gorgeous argiopes. 5000 species of mushrooms, most of which are edible.

[EXITTOBEND]

Well, ah.....they called me moose in high school and I live in Oregon!

[Earniefan]

Decent pheasant hunting and ice fishing are prerequisites of where we decide to move to. Are there "pheasant farms" or areas that are kept up to promote pheasant in the area of Bend? Do the lakes freeze over, and for how long if they do?

[tumbleweedseed]

Originally Posted by oregonready4change

Don't think anybody has mentioned wolves - yes wolves. They have documented seeing them in Eastern Oregon now. Also, big horns would be another. Seriously, I'm doubting the poster that saw "moose", 12 of them in the road around - I'm going to venture out and saw what Tumbleweedseed saw were elk. Ah yes - stay away from the Jackelope!!

what the frill?! I know Elk when I see it, and what "WE" saw was what I said. No need to prove to you clueless
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