A four-man certified judging panel measured the 9-by-9 set of antlers on Dec. 29 at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation headquarters and arrived at an official net score of 411 1/8. The ...

Oklahoma’s 2025 holiday antlerless deer gun season opens Dec. 18. Hunters can take up to two antlerless deer, for themselves or for Hunters Against Hunger.

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 ...

Whether you know them casually as a “red bird,” “blue bird,” and “black bird,” or more formally as a “northern cardinal,” “blue jay,” and “American crow,” you’re welcome at nature’s observation deck ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Ducks Unlimited presented more than $112,000 in donations for land acquisition at Drummond Flats WMA and for the purchase of equipment for Waurika WMA. Gathered, from left, are ODWC Chief of Wildlife ...

Hunter education is undeniably important. In fact, over the past 40 years, hunting-related accidents and fatalities in Oklahoma have dropped by more than 70 percent because of hunter education. But ...

I had the pleasure of interviewing two different young women who both dance and hunt. This story is about how two young women find power, balance, and joy between the stage and the woods. On one side ...

The trapping season for passage peregrine falcons is September 20 through October 20. The Oklahoma allocation for peregrine falcon take is 5 for 2023. The season will be open until 5 peregrines have ...