Hickman works in the Department’s Wildlife Diversity Program and is the Department’s Watchable Wildlife Program leader. She has started and continues to lead several important conservation education efforts. One of those, now it its 23rd year, is the Selman Bat Cave Wildlife Management Area bat watch program, which has enabled more than 10,000 people the unique opportunity to experience the nightly emergence of a million Mexican free-tailed bats.
Hickman was a driving force in developing a state-of-the-art multipurpose educational facility at Hackberry Flat Wildlife Management Area in southwestern Oklahoma. The center and its programs have given countless students the opportunity to immerse themselves in wetland education. She organizes seasonal events hosted by the Hackberry Flat Center, including a monarch butterfly watch and tagging program; shorebird, raptor and grassland bird-viewing events; and an annual Hackberry Flat Day.
Contact Melynda Hickman
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Biologists / Ecologists- Wildlife / Habitat Specialists
Contact Melynda Hickman
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Wildlife Diversity Biologist
1801 N Lincoln Blvd
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Phone: (405) 424-0099
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