When sampling fish with a rod and reel, make sure to sample year-round. When using methods such as seining and traps, focus ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) is mandated to manage, protect, and perpetuate Oklahoma’s wildlife. ODWC issues permits to landowners, lessees or their designated agents to ...

New emergency rules and resolutions for public hunting lands were approved Monday by the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

FISHING TIPS. Smallmouth bass stream fishing offers a great opportunity during the dog days of summer to still get in on great fishing action. Summer fishing in ponds, lakes and reservoirs can be slow ...

As a conservation biologist assigned to track rare and declining species, the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory’s Brenda Smith has spent the past six years digging through scant and scattered ...

Reinking’s survey team will visit nearly 600 survey blocks at least two times per nesting season for three nesting seasons. “Gathering data for the whole diversity of nesting bird species in Oklahoma ...

Tinker’s lizard conservation program relies on many partnerships. Tom Miller, a Geographical Information System Analyst with Colorado State University, provides weekly maps of the lizard’s movements ...

HELPFUL TIPS. Applicants have the chance to buy extra hunt choices at $3 apiece, which will be in addition to the basic application fee of $10 for residents and nonresidents. This increases your ...

I prefer to use a wide-gap octopus hook when fishing with live bait off the bottom with split shot. A size 1 or size 2 wide-gap octopus hook is the perfect all-around size for panfish all the way up ...

Of the 160 camera traps deployed between the two summers, 20 sites captured black bears. For the sites where zero bears were detected in four weeks’ time, the camera was moved to another grid and ...

Regal fritillaries on a milkweed plant. “Prior to this survey, the regal fritillary had been documented in Oklahoma only at The Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve and seven other ...

The broad-banded copperhead is one of two copperhead species thought to occur in Oklahoma. “Camouflage is the copperhead’s first and best defense,” said Curt Allen, senior wildlife biologist stationed ...