Anderson Butte Medford OR to Close 50 Acres to Target Shooting.

Anderson Butte Medford OR to Close 50 Acres to Target Shooting.

Here is another reminder of why we need to practice responsible target practice on public lands every time we go out. Target shooting activity must be held in the highest regards for public safety, respect for other recreational users, stewardship of our public...

WA Senate Bill 5865 Hearing Jan 27th, 2022

Improving safety in public land target shooting is not rocket science.  It doesn’t take years of talks, meetings, public comments, analysis and reports, just to have nothing to show for it.  It can be done in one summer. Allow each state forest region to decide...
Put the word out and do a Mini-Cleanup!

Put the word out and do a Mini-Cleanup!

Bill put out a request for a couple people to help with a small cleanup at a shooting pit in the Yacolt Burn State Forest.  Three volunteers joined him and three hours later… Mission accomplished!   This particular pit is not a good place to shoot.  Too...
Public Safety Project Completed Fall 2021

Public Safety Project Completed Fall 2021

The Fall planting of our Public Safety Project is now complete!   Steve Williams and I (Bill Cogley), purchased and planted the final plants needed for the completion of our Public Safety Project in the Tillamook State Forest, at the improved dispersed target...
Agencies And Organizations Team To Solve Target Shooting Concerns

Agencies And Organizations Team To Solve Target Shooting Concerns

We just completed a project that relied heavily on teamwork.  Without each member of the team, we would not have accomplished our goal.  It’s great to be on a winning team! Our project was to improve an existing dispersed target shooting location in the West...
NEW SHOOTING LANE IN THE SANTIAM​ STATE FOREST

NEW SHOOTING LANE IN THE SANTIAM​ STATE FOREST

NEW SHOOTING LANE ABOUT TO DROP INTO THE SANTIAM​ Trash No Land, the Oregon Dept of Forestry, NRA Foundation, Oregon Dept of Fish & Wildlife and Oregon Dept of Transportation have partnered to improve to a decommissioned gravel quarry for recreational target...
Target Shooting Closures due to Fire Season 2021

Target Shooting Closures due to Fire Season 2021

Other areas will be edited in and posted in the Comments as we hear of them… Tillamook State Forest: Effective Wednesday, August 11, 2021: Motor vehicles, campfires banned on eastern portion of the Tillamook State Forest due to Extreme Fire Danger. Columbia Rv...
Mt Hood’s Wildcat Area Gets A Cleanup… PLUS!

Mt Hood’s Wildcat Area Gets A Cleanup… PLUS!

The Mission:  Trash Cleanup, Graffiti Removal, Fire Prevention. Mission Accomplished! Twenty eight volunteers performed a special kind of stewardship at a popular dispersed target shooting site in the Wildcat area on June 26th, 2021.  They completed a multifaceted...