Taxpayers are on the hook for damages and legal bills after a woman was arrested because of false statements made by an Indiana Department of Natural Resources officer.

Indiana state parks will have free admission Friday for “opt outside.”

Crews continued working Tuesday to douse a fire that began over the weekend in southern Indiana’s Brown County State Park and has scorched more than 100 acres.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources TIP line offers up to $500 for successful poaching reports all year round. In 2021, more than 300 called the TIP line to report the illegal taking of wild animals.

H5N1 has been found in Dubois and Marion Counties. It can transfer from wild waterfowl to domestic poultry facilities without precautions.

Not much has changed in the past decade — but the answer is still a little surprising. According to the U.S. Forest Service, from 2006 to 2019 the number of forest acres in Indiana went up slightly by 2 percent. But the number of individual trees went down by 6 percent.

A bill that could jeopardize flood insurance for Wayne County residents — and potentially other insured Hoosiers — passed the state Senate on Tuesday.

Two state Senate bills would limit the Department of Natural Resources’ authority to protect people from flooding.

A state House bill, HB 1209, would set up a permit program to allow companies that pollute to capture carbon emissions and store them underground.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is proposing the addition of about 20 insects to the state’s list of endangered and threatened species. Most of those are moths.