06/06/2026
🚨 Oregon is 30 days from potentially making hunting and fishing CRIMINAL acts.
Initiative Petition 28 — the so-called PEACE Act — has submitted 126,000 signatures to the Oregon Secretary of State. They only needed 117,173. If those signatures verify, this goes to Oregon voters in November.
Here's what it actually does: it doesn't ban hunting outright. It's smarter and more dangerous than that. It simply REMOVES the legal exemptions that currently protect hunting, fishing, trapping, and farming from Oregon's criminal animal cruelty statutes. Same result. Harder to fight.
→ 330,000+ licensed Oregon hunters become criminals overnight
→ 500,000+ licensed anglers face criminal prosecution for fishing
→ Oregon's $1.9 billion hunting and fishing economy collapses
→ ODFW loses its $180M+ conservation budget. Wildlife programs die with it.
→ Oregon's nine tribal nations lose treaty-protected fishing rights
Both Republican AND Democrat candidates for governor oppose it. The sitting governor opposes it. The state's bipartisan Sportsmen's Caucus opposes it.
None of that matters if hunters and anglers don't show up at the ballot box.
And here's what keeps us up at night: this isn't just Oregon's fight. IP28 is the third version of this campaign. It failed in 2020. It failed in 2024. It got closer every time. The groups behind it are already laying groundwork in California, Washington, Colorado, and Arizona.
Oregon is the test run. Your state is next on the list.
The July 2 verification deadline is coming fast. Read our full breakdown — link in the first comment. Share this with every hunter and angler you know, whether they're in Oregon or not.