The Ford Hoosier Outdoor Experience will give people a free chance this weekend to try about 50 outdoor activities at Fort Harrison State Park.

Indiana residents who are age 18 and older will be allowed to fish public waters without a fishing license or a trout stamp on Saturday, May 20.

The DNR attributes the increase to its efforts to stock that lake with more young muskies and provide them with more vegetation cover from predators.

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 DNR says the emerald ash borer has killed nearly all mature ash trees across Indiana's northern two-thirds.

Indiana's Department of Natural Resources says the bear was seen last year in the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge.

The Department of Natural Resources says the Nongame Wildlife Fund's donations fell more than 60 percent last year.

Thanks to a successful reintroduction program at Lake Monroe in Bloomington during the late 1980s, bald eagle sightings are much more common in Indiana. The cold winter months are some of the best times to see eagles.

DNR foresters will help landowners apply for the funding and develop forest management plans for their properties.

The Department of Child Services wants the legislature to help improve the process of reporting child abuse and neglect to the agency.