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DIYildlife: Start Planning Fall Wildscape Updates
Whether your wildlife-friendly yard is just getting started or has been welcoming wildlife for years, take stock of your wildscape goals and plan any updates this fall.
Tulsa Woman Kicks off Retirement from Cricket-filled Career with ... Cricket Surveys
Peggy Hill, professor emerita with the University of Tulsa, may be recently retired, but that hasn’t stopped her from studying nature - especially the nature of crickets - or from contributing to science.
Gobblers on a Limb: Taking Care of Your Turkey Roosts
We share management tips for maintaining roosting wild turkey habitat.
I Struck Water!
Healthy streams aren't just good for fish. They help sustain surrounding plants and wildlife and provide water for downstream users.
Landowners Making a Difference for Young Hunters
Oklahoma's private lands youth antlerless deer hunt program is all about creating memories between landowners, young hunters, and their family member or friend.
Take Your Backyard to the Next Pollinator Level with Host Plants
Adding colorful backyard flowering plants, especially host plants, has been a popular way for Oklahomans to help our state’s butterfly community.
Fishing Out the Flies...Mayflies & Caddisflies
Team effort studies sensitive aquatic mayflies and caddisflies.
The Lost Cricket Project
A new Oklahoma citizen science program has launched, with the aim of finding new populations of the rare prairie mole cricket.
Oklahoma Lakes Surveyed for Invasive Plants
Priscilla Crawford, conservation biologist for the Oklahoma Biological Survey, has visited more than 100 lakes in her hunt for invasive plants.
2018-2019 Big Game Report
Hunters in Oklahoma are continuing to enjoy some of the most diverse deer hunting opportunities that the country has to offer. Harvest increased slightly from 2017- 18, with a total of 109,260 deer taken in 2018-19.