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Outdoor Oklahoma Journal

This is the Outdoor Oklahoma Journal, where we're all about helping you pursue and engage in Oklahoma's vibrant outdoor lifestyle. Follow us for great hunting and fishing stories, wildlife features, insider information about unique opportunities, and tangible details on how to go out and be a hunter, angler, and conservationist. The outdoors are always open, so don't miss out!

ODWC's Top Tips for Youth Deer Gun Season

While the most important thing is to make sure you just get out and go, we've got some additional important tips that we think you should know about for youth deer gun season!

Benefits of Trapping for Landowners

A brief history on the evolution of trapping and how landowners can use regulated trapping in a variety of management strategies.

How to Fix a Stunted Bass Pond

Biologist Cliff Sager gives advice for one of the more common pond-related questions, how to fix a stunted bass pond.

The White-tailed Diet: More than just Acorns and Corn

A discussion about the white-tailed diet that extends to browse, forbs, mast, and other native foods.

Early Season Hunting is for the Does

Harvesting antlerless deer early in the season leads to benefits realized later.

'21-'22 Big Game Report

Impressive harvest statistics from the 2021-22 hunting seasons again prove that now is a great time to be an Oklahoma big game hunter.

Of Books and Birds

Libraries can serve as gateways to the natural world, especially when librarians bring their love of books and birds.

Rare Bee Detected at Cookson Wildlife Management Area

Native bee survey helps build list of known pollinators in Oklahoma, including a rare bee detected at Cookson WMA.

Establishing a Successful Wildscape

Attracting wildlife to your yard can be as simple as providing four basic habitat components in your wildscape: food, water, cover, and space.

Catch, Clean & Cook Bass

Tips on how to catch eater-sized largemouth bass, how to clean them and how to cook them.