INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) -- The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently held a ceremony at the Indiana Statehouse to honor the latest graduates of the organization's K-9 program.

The four officers and their new K-9 partners completed a nine-week K-9 Resource Protection Program in order to qualify for graduation.

The dogs are trained for a multitude of tasks that range from tracking to search-and-rescue efforts. A DNR K-9 can track ginseng, deer, turkey, waterfowl and other species depending on where they area stationed. They have also helped to locate guns and stop poaching.

"It's down in southern Indiana at Patoka [Lake], and that's where we train them in the three aspects that they're trained in, which is human tracking, wildlife detection and article searching, which is hum

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