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Biologist scaling tree at McCurtain County Wilderness Area.
Biologist Spends Career Helping Endangered Woodpecker

After 35 years as a biologist, the last 25 of which have been spent managing an endangered woodpecker, John Skeen retires.

A landscape view of the Little River taken after the leaves have dropped from the trees
Managing for Mussels

The Wildlife Department works with many partners to enhance endangered populations of the Ouachita rock pocketbook mussel in southeastern Oklahoma.