Oklahoma Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office

Finding your path toward a career in conservation is challenging. We can all look back to pivotal moments in our journey; for many of us, that internship was the launching point for where we are. That is precisely what Chuck Taylor, an intern based out of the Oklahoma Fish and Wildlife Conservation...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a recovery plan for the Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), a minnow found in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. This recovery plan serves as a roadmap for the conservation of the Arkansas River shiner and its habitat and establishes criteria for...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on a draft recovery plan for the Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), an imperiled minnow native to the Arkansas River basin found in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The 60-day comment period ends on Oct. 30th, 2023. 

For nearly two decades, exhaustive studies and experimental control efforts have continued in the northern half of the Mississippi River basin, where infamous hordes of leaping silver carp have earned the center stage for fisheries agencies. In recent years, however, an influx of resources has been...

Invasive carp have taken the Mississippi River basin by storm since their escapement from farm ponds in the 1970s, where they were originally introduced to control vegetation and phytoplankton, and improve water quality.

Alligator gars are one of the largest freshwater fishes in North America, the largest freshwater fish in the Mississippi River Valley, and the apex predator in that system.