Explore Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, named one of USA TODAYs Most Treasured Views in America for 2025.

As multiple agencies worked to contain wildfires, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge was closed to the public on Saturday. U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials said the closure was due to concerns ...

MEERS (KFOR) – 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 ...

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 ...

It was a chilly March day in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, twenty miles northwest of Lawton, in southwestern Oklahoma. After nearly a full day of trudging through fog that just wouldn’t ...

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 ...

Miles of prairie stretched out across the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southern Oklahoma, acre after acre of brush, grasses and hearty vegetation creeping toward the low-range granite ...

UPDATE (05/19; 12:53 p.m.) — Law enforcement said they believe the body of a woman recently found in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge has been identified based on tips from the public.

Levi Wilkins, an Oklahoma firefighter, died while rock climbing at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, officials say. Screengrab from Emily Wilkins' Facebook. An Oklahoma firefighter died in a ...