DNR

Dan Bortner served as director for Indiana State Parks for 15 years until former Gov. Eric Holcomb tapped him to lead the DNR in 2020.

Local wineries are preparing for an insect with a benign-sounding name but one whose potential for damaging grapevines could force them to outsource grapes or raise prices.

Chronic wasting disease is an incurable illness in deer that causes neurological problems, much like mad cow disease. The DNR found Indiana’s first case of chronic wasting disease last year.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) has advised the public to avoid waters around Flint Creek in Tippecanoe County, after a report of a significant number of dead fish.

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.