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Firearms season for white-tailed deer in Indiana opens Saturday and the Department of Natural Resources predicts another year of near-record harvest numbers.

Twenty-one state parks in Indiana will close temporarily in the coming weeks for two rounds of hunts that are meant to control the population of deer. In addition, three state parks will close for Canada goose hunts.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service are pairing up to provide venison workshops in September throughout the state. During each event, presenters will skin, butcher, and prepare deer in a variety of ways and participants will be able to sample the meat.

State officials have awarded more than $890,000 in grants to lake and river projects in 15 counties throughout Indiana. The grants – part of the Lake and River Enhancement program at the Department of Natural Resources – will provide funding for biological and engineering projects, including design, diagnostic and engineering feasibility studies and construction.

A strange fungus is spreading around bats, threatening their existence.