The Indiana Natural Resources Commission recently approved the Dilcher-Turner Canyon Forest Nature Preserve in Greene County, a few miles south of the village of Hendricksville.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has seen an increase in hunting licenses recently. It's the first time license sales have been up in several years.

The state Department of Natural Resources said all of its campgrounds, property-operated cabins, camper cabins and inns would reopen Friday under the eased restrictions approved by Gov. Eric Holcomb.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has a goal to plant 1 million trees in the state over the next five years. The Central Indiana Land Trust is helping with those efforts by planting more than 10,000 trees this week.

The Natural Resources Commission recently approved the creation of the Patoka Hills Nature Preserve, which spans nearly 27 acres in southern Indiana's Crawford County.

Bob Vollmer joined the DNR in 1962 and still travels Indiana collecting technical field data and confirming boundary lines for DNR-managed properties.

Seventeen Indiana state park sites will close temporarily on Nov. 18-19 and Dec. 2-3 for a pair of controlled deer hunts.

Indiana has the nation's ninth-highest number of dams deemed to be in poor or unsatisfactory condition and rated as "high hazard," just behind Kentucky.

Activists and outdoor recreation businesses want Indiana to set aside 10 percent of state forests for old growth trees. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says the state forests are one of the few places where it can create important wildlife habitat

The DNR pays seed collectors on the basis of "pure live seed" that meet DNR specifications, including being free of diseases and insects.