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June 28, 2024

Smart Lake Erie Watershed initiative providing important data from Ohio waters

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

Lake Erie water resource experts have an expanded tool to help them better manage and protect this invaluable asset.
Anglers and boaters, too, can tap into his electronic network of deployed sensory buoys. In real time, these 13 submersible devices – called “gateways” – cover some 6,500 square miles of Lake Erie. Among the vital data are dissolved oxygen levels, pH, wave height, and water temperature.

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Understanding these four shotgun myths can make you a better shooter

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You rarely, if ever, see shotgun pellets in the air. You only know if you hit the target or missed. Shooting patterns at paper helps you understand what’s going on, but it’s still a 2-D snapshot of a 3-D phenomenon.
There is still a lot of mystery to every hit or miss. So, we come up with explanations as to what happens when they miss. Some are true, some aren’t. Those that aren’t become myths and urban legends. Believing them does not help your shooting.

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New York 16-year-old making a name for himself in the lure-making business

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Entrepreneurial spirit isn’t defined by age. At 16 years old, AJ Cardinale has a business acumen that many adults would envy. With his hand-painted Reel Cool Lures making sales in 25 states, the young angler is redefining what it means to fish for success.
AJ’s story began not in a boardroom but fishing on New York’s Oneida Lake when he was just 10 years old. Frustrated by the constant loss of store-bought lures, AJ, with the help of his family, decided to take matters into his own hands.

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Iowans encouraged to report wild turkey sightings in July and August

Featured, Hunting, Iowa, News /

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking for help with its annual wild turkey production survey. During the months of July and August wild turkey sightings are recorded to estimate this year’s nesting rates and nest success. 
Participation is easy – just note the date and county in which the turkey was seen, if it was an adult female or adult male – males have beards on their breast – and if and how many poults (baby turkeys) were present.

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Les Winkeler: Sights and sounds of an Illinois quail a pleasant distraction

Featured, Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

One of the most common laments I’ve heard over the past two decades is the plight of the northern bobwhite – the quail.
About 50 years ago, the familiar sound of “BOBBBBB-WHITE” could be heard daily along any rural road in Illinois. The colorful quail flourished in pasturelands and in the hedgerows that separated farmers’ fields. Quail were so common, so verbal, my brothers and I considered ourselves quite the naturalists. We could walk along the barbed wire fence separating grandpa’s pasture from the neighbor’s cornfields and whistle something vaguely resembling “Bob-White” and eventually get a response.

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Here’s how to lay eyes on your target deer in midsummer so you can build a fall hunting plan

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It wasn’t that long ago that the word “hit-lister” didn’t exist in the whitetail-hunting lexicon.
With the growing-deer movement, that has all changed. It’s no longer just the power couples on hunting shows who name deer and develop a long history with individual bucks before they are deemed worthy of a tag. This style has bled through the fabric to everyday hunters, and it makes sense. Nearly everyone wants to shoot a big buck, and it’s more common to try to lock up a whitetail spot now than ever before.

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Glenn Sapir: Are bass tournaments facing discrimination with permitting proposal from New York DEC?

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My brother Don is a nationally renowned labor lawyer, specializing in discrimination cases. But when it comes to the proposal to implement a black bass fishing tournament permitting system, Mike Cusano presents his concerns in a way that perhaps not even the best attorney could match.
Cusano, who lives in Clay, N.Y., is not a lawyer. He is a business analyst for Syracuse University, a fishing guide, a bass and walleye tournament fishermen and a sportsmen’s leader and advocate, serving for four years as president of the New York Bass Federation, president of the Salt City Bassmasters for nine years and currently chairman of the Onondaga County Fisheries Advisory Board.

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Reservoir upgrade in Blair County, Pa., to boost trout streams

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Work is nearly completed on a $25 million reservoir remake on Bells Gap Run in Blair County. Pa.
The improvements will bring the dam up to safety standards required by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The upgrades also will allow for a cold-water discharge into Bells Gap Run.
“I am thrilled that the dam will now have a bottom release of cold water into Bells Gap Run,” Little Juniata River Association President Bill Anderson said.

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