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The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is an agency of the state of Oklahoma responsible for managing and protecting Oklahoma's wildlife population and their habitats. The Department is under the control of the Wildlife Conservation Commission, [2] an 8-member board appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma with the approval of the ...
Managed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for public and school education. [8] Closed to All Hunting, with limited exceptions. [9] Coordinates 35.623931, -97.389394 Atoka WMA [10] Atoka: 6,440 acres (2,610 ha) 12 miles north of Atoka bordering US 69 to the west. Coordinates: 34.4718478,-95.9123338.
The McCurtain County Wilderness Area is a 14,087 acres (5,701 ha) wilderness nature preserve 25 miles (40 km) north of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. It has been owned by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. [1] It was designated a National Natural Landmark in December 1974 for its excellent example of a xeric upland oak-pine forest. [2]
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Website Optima National Wildlife Refuge Located in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle, the 4,333-acre (17.54 km 2 ) Optima National Wildlife Refuge is made up of grasslands and wooded bottomland on the Coldwater Creek arm of the Optima Lake project.
This is a list of species of fauna that have been observed in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( February 2011 )
Mar. 29—The Oklahoma Wildlife License Modernization Act was signed into law March 26 by Gov. Kevin Stitt, after it previously passed the state House of Representatives and Senate. The measure ...
The WMA dates from 1947, when the State of Oklahoma purchased and established it as a deer preserve. At the time, the state's deer herd had been overhunted and had dropped to less than 500 animals. The state wildlife department nurtured a herd of native deer in the WMA and began exporting it to other parts of Oklahoma.