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Deer taken during the holiday antlerless season are considered bonus deer, which are in addition to a hunter’s aggregate deer limit from the other regular deer seasons. Hunters holding the appropriate ...

Gathered to cut the ribbon to reopen the renovated Optima WMA shooting range are, from left, retired Game Warden Max Crocker, ODWC Director Wade Free, Game Warden Lydia Gearhart, Chief of Wildlife ...

The Wildlife Department partners with private landowners to create even more public hunting and fishing access through the Oklahoma Land Access Program. Landowners are rewarded for conservation-minded ...

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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, snakes are an ecological mainstay in Oklahoma. They can be found across the state – in urban areas as well as places more rural and wild – living in burrows, around rocks and ...

Transition to El Niño Weather Pattern Likely Helped Birds By Tell Judkins, Upland Game Biologist The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) has conducted annual roadside quail surveys in ...

Tinker Air Force Base, located a few miles east of Oklahoma City, has long been celebrated as the military’s largest air defense depot and is home to a number of very large, very impressive planes.

A white-tailed deer carcass recently recovered along a Texas road about 2.5 miles south of the Oklahoma border in the western Panhandle south of Felt, Okla., has tested ...