We manage/protect fish & wildlife, along with their habitats, while also growing a community of hunters & anglers, partnering with those who love the outdoors
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Thank you @TheGarLab, @SolomonRDavid and everyone who has memed, made gart work and learned with us this week!
The spirit of Gar Week lives in our hearts until it comes around again next year 🫡
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation retweeted
The time has come….our hybrid gar has a name!
Drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁
Runner up is this awesome drawing our office is not referring as “the booger one”
Many thanks to Dr. Solomon David, the Gar Lab, and @OKWildlifeDept for putting on Gar Week 2025!
An awesome 7-year-old wanted to share this gartwork, a comic she drew after much speculation about whether or not a longnose gar has worse colds and more boogers than shortnose gar.
🚨A GARTWORK WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN🚨 thank you everyone for the AWESOME artwork, each piece brought us pure delight
The winner of the crochet gar is @macigibs with this amazing gartwork
This research will help improve hatchery reintroductions and the genetic pool of gar populations in Lake Texoma! /final
Specifically, we’re using tags and sampling methods to study the impact of Denison Dam on alligator gar genetic diversity and movement in Lake Texoma and the Red River /2
GAR WEEK DAY 5: Let’s talk research! We’re teaming up with a team at OSU to study alligator gar in southern Oklahoma. 🧵
❤️🥹
Y'all have really outdone yourselves during #GarWeek. Thank you for the engaging, thoughtful, conservation minded content. @OKWildlifeDept @SolomonRDavid
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation retweeted
Paddlefish need love, but, apparently, not fettuccine.
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation retweeted
@OKWildlifeDept calls them "trading cards." But let's be honest, you won't want to trade them.
Except perhaps for a bowl of chili.
There's STILL TIME to purchase trading cards and stickers! ONLY AVAILABLE through tomorrow, get yours while supplies last:
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There's STILL TIME to purchase trading cards and stickers! ONLY AVAILABLE through tomorrow, get yours while supplies last:
license.gooutdoorsoklahoma.c…
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation retweeted
🎵 Look at the scales,
Look how they shine for you 🎵 @OKWildlifeDept
They filter-feed for zooplankton, which means you can’t fish for them with bait: you have to snag them!
The state record paddlefish was 164 lbs and almost 7 feet long /final
Paddlefish use sensors in their rostrum (nose) to detect prey with electrical signals, which is more impressive than your fish finder /2
DAY 4: Did you know gar are older than the T. rex? They still look like they’re waiting for the asteroid tbh. Let’s talk about another ancient species: paddlefish! 🧵
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation retweeted
Lots of Gar in our state. Always fun to catch a swamp marlin. @OKWildlifeDept #garweek #longnose #gar
