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Red Slough Wildlife Management Area
With its rich biodiversity and natural history, Red Slough is one of the best examples of how nature can re-exert itself with a nudge here and there. Manipulated by farmers in the early 20th century to produce quality crops. In the 1960's, a variety of forces: including demand for rice, a poor economy in southeast Oklahoma, and industrious farmers combined to reduce the habitat at Red Slough to a fraction of its former glory.
Cherokee Wildlife Management Area
There's a spot on the Cherokee Wildlife Management Area where you can feel Oklahoma's pioneer history. It's an old homestead, long ago reclaimed by the surrounding rolling hil
Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area
“The wooded hill prevailed on either hand without any prospect of termination, and strongly resemble the mountain of the Blue Ridge, at Harper’s Ferry, in Virginia,” wrote Tho
Spavinaw Wildlife Management Area
Your heart is racing, adrenaline is flowing, all because a nice 8~point buck has stepped into view. You slowly pull back on your bow as your target finally draws close enough
Blue River Public Fishing and Hunting Area
Before Oklahoma became a state, adventurous settlers were already seeking out land for home sites to raise families, livestock and crops in a landscape blanketed with prairie.
ODWC Fisheries Biologists Watchful of Black Bass Populations
The catch-and-release of largemouth and smallmouth bass is deeply rooted in fishing culture across the nation. In fact, keeping bass has become somewhat taboo.
New Trout Limit Set for Benefit of Stocking Program, Anglers in Future
New trout limit benefits trout stocking program and anglers.
Packsaddle Wildlife Management Area
Those who claim that western Oklahoma is flat and featureless must have never taken a drive out west, and they certainly have never scuffed up a pair of boots at the Packsaddl
Honobia and Three Rivers – A Pair of Southeast Oklahoma Gems
Three Rivers WMA, owned by Weyerhaeuser Company, covers about 450,000 acres in McCurtain and Pushmataha counties, while Honobia Creek WMA, owned by Hancock Natural Resource Gr
Beaver River Wildlife Management Area
"Live water." Folks in northwest Oklahoma, particularly hunters, know the importance of live water and its relationship to good wildlife habitat. While much of northwest Oklah