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Wichita Mountains WR

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, photo by Darrin Hill

Contacts

Hunting: (580) 429-3222
Fishing: (580) 529-2795
Game Warden (County):
(580) 695-7535(Comanche)
Area Acres
59,020 ac.

For details on Wichita Mountains WR visit our partners with the USFWS:

USFWS - Wichita Mountains WR

All hunting seasons are closed except controlled turkey, elk and deer hunts. Contact the refuge for waterfowl special restrictions.

Daily/Size Limits:

Channel and/or blue catfish: six combined per day.

Methods:

Allowed methods: rod and reel only.

Recent Journals
An American black bear stands near a pile of logs with its nose in the air.
Study Focused on Panhandle Black Bears Gets Big Picture Results

Camera traps and hair snares give landowners and biologists answers about status and origin of Panhandle black bears.

A tan frog with dark blotches floats in the water.
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring … the Crawfish Frog is Snoring

A team from Oklahoma State University has been studying the state’s secretive crawfish frog with research and survey sites spanning from a single breeding pond to the eastern one-third of Oklahoma.

A small brown butterfly is perched on a twig.
Small Butterfly Gets Big Status Update

A team organized by the Oklahoma Biological Survey tracked down the handful of frosted elfin butterfly records for the state and made it their mission to increase the number of known locations for the species.