“Our goal is to survey Oklahoma’s streams and develop the most updated range information for nongame fishes,” said Eric Cox, ...

Turning the Tables: How Oklahoma Snakes Defend Against Unwanted Encounters Oklahoma’s snake diversity includes 49 species, the large majority of which are considered nonvenomous. Beyond this bulk of ...

Oklahoma is often thought of as an ecological melting pot, where forests, prairies, and wetlands meet to provide habitat for a truly impressive list of animals. That blend of eastern and western ...

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 ...

Tickets are now available for the 2025 Call of the Wild Gala, an unforgettable evening set from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the iconic National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. This ...

"The fur trappers of the Old West were fearless, daring men. They knew the West when it was a wilderness... they explored (it) until it held no secrets from them." Those words, written by author A.M.

STATE’S BIG GAME SEASONS ARE BIG WINS FOR HUNTERS Record Black Bear Harvest Adds to Overall Success By Dallas Barber, big game biologist, ODWC Oklahoma’s 2023-24 big game seasons continued to ride the ...

Seeing a sick wild animal in your backyard can be a stressful and frightening ordeal. Certain diseases, like canine distemper virus, can cause wildlife to act unusually and have cyclical outbreaks or ...

A young of year tilapia collected during an electrofishing survey in NW Oklahoma. Stocking these fish every year and having them die every fall/winter can be very expensive. Because tilapia are not ...

Dung beetles are master recyclers, able to devour a dung heap in short time. Of course, there is a second, if not more common, question that quickly comes to mind when thinking about dung beetles and ...

Find tips for identifying Oklahoma’s look-alike species in our video series on YouTube. Similarities: These look-alike grouse are stocky, heavily barred, and wary birds. Each spring, prairie-chickens ...

The Wildlife Department’s new youth annual super hunting license is like a season pass to the outdoors for those under 18 wanting to hunt deer, turkey, waterfowl, elk, bear, antelope, and furbearers, ...