INDIANAPOLIS — As the holiday season comes to an end consider recycling or re-purposing your Christmas tree. According to Carrie Tauscher, DNR Division of Forestry’s Community and Urban Forest program director, options include taking the tree to a designated Christmas tree recycling site and tossing it in the backyard to provide shelter for wintering birds …read more.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources reports that it stocked 31.9 million fish in 70 counties in 2014. In a typical year, stocking numbers usually range between 22 and 24 million fish. The increase was due primarily to a nearly record number of walleye eggs collected by DNR biologists for hatchery production and a higher …read more.