Landowners

Landowner Specific Rules and Regulations

• A resident does not need a license to hunt on land upon which the person resides and is owned by the person or a member of the person’s immediate family, unless they are hunting for a species for which a tag is required or are applying for big game tags.
• A landowner or landowner agent does not need a hunting or trapping license to take predatory animals on land they own, lease, lawfully occupy, possess, or have charge or dominion over.
• Landowners or their agents may hunt predatory animals with a spotlight, and from a vehicle on lands that they legally own or occupy.

Landowner Preference Program

• Landowners with a minimum of 40 contiguous acres may qualify for controlled hunts tags on their property. In order to qualify, lands must be registered with ODFW and hunters must apply for hunts through the controlled hunt system. Registration and further information on the Landowner Preference Program (LOP) can be found at: myodfw.com/landowner-preference-program or by contacting ODFW License Service at 503-947-6101. Registration packets can also be acquired through local ODFW offices.
• Renew registrations and complete tag distribution lists online.
• LOP tags are only valid within the registered property boundaries for which the tag is issued.
• All landowners and eligible applicants must purchase controlled hunt application prior to the deadline. Applications for LOP tags must indicate a landowner preference hunt choice on their application.

LOP Tag Limits

• Antelope hunts with an either sex or a one doe or fawn bag limit are available to landowners or immediate family through the LOP program. All LOP antelope tags will be limited to a doe/fawn bag limit.
• LOP tags are not available for 223T or the Aug. 15 – Dec. 31 youth elk hunts. In the following hunts LOP tags will be limited to five tags or 10% of the total controlled hunt tags, whichever is greater: elk hunts; 254R1, 254Y1, 255R1, 255Y1, 256R1 and 256Y1: buck deer hunts; 112, 122, 141C, 142B, 143C, 145A, 148A, 154C, 157A and 165R2.
• In addition to the hunts listed, buck mule deer LOP tags may be limited in WMUs below Population Management Objective. The list of affected mule deer buck hunts will be available starting May 1 of each year.