In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast , host Zach Urness talks with Debbie Colbert, director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Colbert became the first female director of ODFW, an agency which traces its history back to the 1800s, in May of 2024 .

In the podcast, she talked about her background as a field scientist and her first year as director, before jumping into hot-button topics like fee increases for fishing and hunting licenses , the future of Oregon's hatcheries and wild fish, wolf management, whale entanglement and some big wins for fish in Oregon like the coastal coho salmon recovery .

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