#NewYearNewAdventures means a chance to #HuntFishCA: Chukar hunting provides a challenge on public lands! Video by Dan Ryan, BLM. With cold winds, icy roads and single-digit temperatures, most think of January in the high desert as a time to settle indoors in front of a warm fire. Nevertheless, there is a group of public land users who flock to the frigid hillsides during January. They are upland bird hunters, the most dedicated of whom pursue the chukar, a partridge little known outside of the

Partridge and chukar hunting in beautiful central Oregon above the Deschutes River – video: Traci Weaver, BLM This video is from the Criterion Tract of BLM-managed land above the Wild and Scenic Deschutes River during Thanksgiving weekend. Map of the area: https://goo.gl/3dgJT8 Photos and videos from the Deschutes: https://goo.gl/pSDTJL Information on how to hunt legally in Oregon: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/hunting/index.asp Contact information for the local BLM office in Prineville: