Hello Oregon,
We will be visiting Bend in a week. We will drive through Newberry Volcano Park. Do I need to dismatle my gun?
Here is the text from an email sent by a nice person at the Deschutes National Forest regarding my inquiries about gun restrictions and plinking sites on the Deschutes:
"You may want to contact Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for the rules and regulations on hunting in Oregon the local number is 541-388-6363 or you can go out on our web and go through Links.
I just looked quickly at the locations that you sent me. These are for National Parks and monuments. National Parks and Monuments are under the Department of Interior as is Bureau of Land Management. Obama may have made the law for just the National Parks.
Newberry and Deschutes are Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture. We have about 3 monument that we as a agency administer. Because we are a different agency we do not have the same rules as the National Park System. National Parks are usually just one interesting place such as Devil's Tower, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone etc. The National Parks system is to preserve that one land mark. Where the Forest Service is multi use such as wilderness, OHV, hunting fishing, boating, Timber, etc. We are more in to the uses and preserving the ability to use the land in a carrying way.
Newberry Volcano was designated a Wildlife Refuge back before it was Forest Service land. When the state had control of the crater and Dillman Cave (Lava River Cave). For the past 60 years that I have lived here and recreated their has been a sign as you enter the edge of the caldera at Paulina Falls. Telling you there is no hunting inside the caldera, no visible transportation of a dead animal through there either and guns must be taken apart while in the caldera area.
Hope this help you understand that the law may have only been for certain agencies. "
Is Newberry Volcano Park a "no-gun" zone? Is Newberry not covered under the same legislation that the National Parks are under?
I am trying to research this issue, but have not found the pertinent citations at this time.
thanks for your help,
markm
We will be visiting Bend in a week. We will drive through Newberry Volcano Park. Do I need to dismatle my gun?
Here is the text from an email sent by a nice person at the Deschutes National Forest regarding my inquiries about gun restrictions and plinking sites on the Deschutes:
"You may want to contact Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for the rules and regulations on hunting in Oregon the local number is 541-388-6363 or you can go out on our web and go through Links.
I just looked quickly at the locations that you sent me. These are for National Parks and monuments. National Parks and Monuments are under the Department of Interior as is Bureau of Land Management. Obama may have made the law for just the National Parks.
Newberry and Deschutes are Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture. We have about 3 monument that we as a agency administer. Because we are a different agency we do not have the same rules as the National Park System. National Parks are usually just one interesting place such as Devil's Tower, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone etc. The National Parks system is to preserve that one land mark. Where the Forest Service is multi use such as wilderness, OHV, hunting fishing, boating, Timber, etc. We are more in to the uses and preserving the ability to use the land in a carrying way.
Newberry Volcano was designated a Wildlife Refuge back before it was Forest Service land. When the state had control of the crater and Dillman Cave (Lava River Cave). For the past 60 years that I have lived here and recreated their has been a sign as you enter the edge of the caldera at Paulina Falls. Telling you there is no hunting inside the caldera, no visible transportation of a dead animal through there either and guns must be taken apart while in the caldera area.
Hope this help you understand that the law may have only been for certain agencies. "
Is Newberry Volcano Park a "no-gun" zone? Is Newberry not covered under the same legislation that the National Parks are under?
I am trying to research this issue, but have not found the pertinent citations at this time.
thanks for your help,
markm
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