OR HB3124

Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify wildlife management units or herd ranges experiencing drought, habitat degradation, and reduced nutritional availability where elk or mule deer populations are at or below 50% of management goals, or where pronghorn, bighorn sheep, or mountain goat populations are below 75% of their three-year rolling average.

Mandates predator control in identified areas until elk or mule deer populations reach 80% of goals, or until pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and mountain goat populations reach 90% of their three-year rolling average.

Requires the department to review and update wildlife management unit designations at least every two years using drought mapping, invasive grass inventories, rangeland vegetation maps, and data from federal and state agencies.

Appropriates General Fund money to the department for the 2025-2027 biennium to implement predator control activities (specific dollar amount left blank in bill text).

Declares an emergency, making the act effective immediately upon passage.