Students ages 11-17 currently enrolled in any Oklahoma School and home school students are eligible for participation. Winners of the 2023 contest are not eligible. Applicants must have successfully ...

For requirements on hunter orange, legal means of taking, public lands, shooting hours, carcass disposal, more than one method of take in the field, tracking with dogs, field tagging, and checking ...

Stocking these fish every year and having them die every fall/winter can be very expensive. Because tilapia are not eaten ...

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 ...

If you witness a violation, call your game warden or contact the Operation Game Thief hotline at (800) 522-8039. If you can’t reach your local game warden and have an emergency or see someone ...

The Cy Curtis Award recognizes trophy animals in Oklahoma and the hunters who harvest them. Established in 1972 in honor of the former Wildlife Department biologist largely credited for the ...

The state’s Close to Home Fishing Program was designed as a partnership between the Wildlife Department and municipalities across Oklahoma to provide urban angling opportunities. These small bodies of ...

In 1998, CWD was confirmed in a captive elk herd in Oklahoma County which had originally been imported from Montana. The U.S. Department of Agriculture euthanized that herd to decrease the threat of ...

Established in 1981, the Wildlife Department’s Wildlife Diversity Program focuses on rare, declining, and threatened species of wildlife as well as those common species not hunted or fished. More than ...

Did you know that Oklahoma is over 95% privately owned? With that, successful wildlife habitat management requires action by private landowners. Managing and enhancing habitat for wildlife can be a ...

Alligators are often basking with their eyes and nostrils just above the water. They are mostly found in swamps and marshes, but sometimes they are found in rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. In ...

Tarantulas in general live in arid, desert regions, but they can also live in a damp forest environment. The Oklahoma brown tarantula finds shelter near small rocks and logs that they can burrow ...