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June 30, 2026

FishPass nears final construction phase in Michigan’s Traverse City

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The innovative FishPass project on the Boardman-Ottaway River is entering its final phase of construction, bringing a decades-long vision for fish passage and invasive species control one step closer to reality.
Project leaders say in-river construction work is expected to be completed within the next several weeks. Once finished, attention will shift to developing public amenities and educational facilities at the site near downtown Traverse City.

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Ralph Loos: Mandatory reporting system offers good insight into Michigan’s turkey, deer harvest

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Michigan’s turkey hunters followed some twists and turns on their way through the 2026 spring season – somewhat due to weather but mostly due to a significant overhaul of regulations and a whole set of new zone configurations.
The changes took some getting used to, especially the new mandatory harvest reporting requirement.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Ohio DNR’s Put-In-Bay Aquatic Visitors Center well worth a visit

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After touring the T-shirt outlets and ordering a pizza, a visitor still has bunches left to do in this speck of a community on South Bass Island. 
One can pay to see the world’s largest geode – a hollowed out, somewhat spherical rock with bunches of crystals – or stop at the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Visitors Center (you can’t climb the memorial itself as it is under repair, but I digress) one still has options. At the west edge of the Bay itself, which overlooks Gibralter Island and the memorial, sit’s Ohio’s smallest state park – the 1.5-acre Oak Point State Park.

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Steve Pollick: Ohio summer welcomes burst of fireflies

Blogs, Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion /

Welcome to Summer, season of the “Silent Light,” to play on the name of the classic Christmas hymn.
The Silent Light I’m talking about here comes from fireflies, those magical, marvelous, winged beetles that noiselessly light up summer nights with green flashes. Lightning without thunder. Here on Froggy Bottom this year, I spied the first fireflies at dusk during evenings the last week of May. Now my bottomland is a nightly star-twinkling treat with hundreds of them emitting the blinks of distinctive light.

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Teen angler catches and releases huge gar from Ohio’s Indian Creek

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Fourteen-year-old fisherman Jacob Chapman couldn’t resist the urge to try to catch a giant longnose gar when he spotted a school of them on Indian Creek in early June.
The section of Indian Creek Jacob was fishing runs through his home county of Butler. He was fishing for smallmouth bass when he noticed an unusual number of gar swimming nearby.

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PennWest professor David Argent readies the next generation of wildlife, fisheries managers

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David Argent’s first fishing rod was one he crafted himself from a stick, a piece of found fishing line, and a hook fashioned from a nail.
He was 8 years old and on a family outing at Moraine State Park, in Butler County, Pa. “My father had a rod for himself and I wanted to participate, so I took the initiative,” recalled Argent, 55, who managed to catch a few bluegills and bass on his jury-rigged gear. “It blossomed from there.”

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