The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge boasts roughly 650 bison, which often churn the muddy shoreline of Quanah Parker Lake. (Carson Vaughan for The Washington Post) By Carson Vaughan.

While the major summer heat isn't here, the potential for heat exhaustion and wildlife encounters are still there.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials said the closure was due to concerns about smoke from the Rush Fire, a wildfire that broke out on Thursday near the Rush Lake area of the refuge.

The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is just northwest to the very training ground on which Soldiers spend their time in the field. Established in 1901, ...

Oklahoma, while oft overlooked by outsiders, is home to a wide range of geography, ecosystems and views worth writing home ...

MEERS – The Rush Fire reached over 4,400 acres burned by Saturday and caused the Wichita Wildlife Refuge to close. The fire which sparked Thursday near Rush Lake had quickly reached over 1,500 ...

MEDICINE PARK, Okla. – Since temperatures have dropped, a local wildlife refuge says it is lifting hiking restrictions. Earlier this month, officials with the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge ...

Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge is not a well-kept secret thanks to recent publicity from USA Today. The media outlet’s readers voted the southwestern Oklahoma sanctuary the No. 1 ...

The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge isn’t a state or national park. It is nearly 60,000 acres of grassland, forest, and mountains managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Parts of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge are burning in a wildfire that began Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. Warmer-than-usual temperatures, high winds and a persistent drought in October ...

The Rush Fire was still burning in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Monday morning, having burned nearly 12,500 acres after the fire sparked late last week.. A forestry service team, the ...

According to the affidavit, Smith was part of a Native American tribe, the Comanche Nation, and was found dead on May 17, 2023, in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge by authorities.