The DNR says it will have stocked more than 23,000 rainbow trout in 17 streams covering 12 counties for the opener.

Several groups support a ban on the sale of Callery pear and Norway maple.

Indiana is also working to ban the sale of a host of invasive plants on land. The DNR expects to hold a public meeting about the ban in early December.

Officials with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources are trying to keep a fatal deer disease from entering the state.

Low-head dams can be deadly when the waters are high because people can get trapped in the hydraulic action of the water at the dam's base.

The root of the plant is touted as an herbal medicine. Harvesting and sale are regulated.

The state Department of Natural Resources says an inspector found the boxwood blight fungus in early October on boxwoods at a store owned by a national home and garden chain.

The state Department of Natural Resources says recent unseasonably warm weather had delayed the arrival of fall foliage.

The DNR's Division of Forestry allocates 15 percent of timber sale revenue from state forests to counties where the harvests occur.

The plan calls for logging to concentrate on removing stagnated and dying pine trees to create better growing conditions for healthy trees, including black walnut, cherry, oaks, hickory, poplar and maple.