Effective August 1, 2009, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources changed their guidelines for distance learning. Students are now required to spend a minimum amount of time on each course page before proceeding to the certification exam.

Click here to go to the latest version of the Today's Hunter in Indiana online course—the official hunter education course of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

The Hunter's Role in Wildlife Conservation

Since wildlife is a renewable resource with a surplus, hunters help control wildlife populations at a healthy balance for the habitat. Regulated hunting has never led to threatened or endangered wildlife populations. Hunting is an effective wildlife management tool. Hunters play an important role by providing the information from the field that wildlife managers need. Funding from hunting licenses has helped many game and non-game species recover from dwindling populations. Hunters spend more time, money, and effort on wildlife conservation than any other group in society.