LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is closing some public use areas for a few days to conduct controlled hunts. All of the public use areas east of the Visitor Center and ...

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - This year in 2024, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge saw an estimated 1,654,000 visitors. Through all of the visits, officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services ...

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - he Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge will be conducting an aerial control of feral swine on refuge lands on Monday, Jan. 6. Target areas are around Mount Scott and go ...

The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge will conduct aerial control of feral swine on refuge lands Monday. This operation will target the areas around Mount Scott and extend west of the Visitor Center ...

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In Oklahoma, the largest free-ranging elk herds can be found in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, as well as at Pushmataha, Cookson Hills, Spavinaw, and Cherokee wildlife management areas. Small ...

Usually 70 or more will spend the winter either on or near that refuge. A few bald eagles can be spotted at Grand Lake, Fort Gibson, Texoma and Tenkiller lakes along with the Wichita Mountains ...

It’s the third winter in a row the three-legged coyote has been seen at the DeSoto and Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuges ... as other coyotes seen at the refuge, according to Rea.

Chris and Claire Johnson are raising a herd of uniquely colored and textured cattle at their Buffalo Dream Ranch in far northwestern Comanche County near the western boundary of the Wichita Mountains ...