DNR kicks off new YouTube channel

INDIANAPOLIS (WLFI) - With the Indiana Department of Natural Resources’ new YouTube channel, Hoosiers can now experience the outdoors at the click of a button.

Forty-five videos are already featured on the YouTube channel. You can learn about Monument City, a former town normally submerged under Salamonie Reservoir during the summer (which was exposed during this summer’s drought).

You can also watch Gov. Mitch Daniels commemorate the groundbreaking of a visitors center at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area.

Learn how to fillet a crappie, or take in a time-lapse recording of the Perseid meteor shower over Lake Michigan. You can do all sorts of green things on the new YouTube channel.

There’s also a video featuring Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist Chad Stewart discussing changes to deer hunting regulations. It’s been viewed almost 6,000 times.

The videos are produced by videographer and Purdue Exponent alumnus Michael Carney, who joined DNR this year for the second time, having worked previously as a seasonal naturalist at Brown County State Park.

“Video adds a powerful tool for telling the DNR story, and YouTube gives us the forum to share those stories with a broader audience,” DNR communications director Phil Bloom said. “Despite little fanfare about our videos, the viewing numbers we have seen so far tell us we are on the right track.”

You can find the channel at the DNR's website.