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.

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

The state is lowering some bonus antlerless quotas because of how Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease is impacting the deer population.

WFYI's Taylor Bennett spoke with Eagle Creek Senior Park Manager Brittany Davis about the process for determining when a reduction is necessary.

The parks will close to visitors on Nov. 12 and 13, and Nov. 26 and 27 during the two-day hunts .

A law approved last year prohibited deer hunters from using rifles on public property.

A deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in Illinois, near the Indiana border, prompting intensified surveillance from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says deer-vehicle collisions across Indiana numbered more than 14,000 last year, down nearly 9 percent from 2015.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says hunters who kill deer in Dearborn County north of State Road 48 between now and Nov. 27 must take them to a DNR check station to be sampled for bovine TB.