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August 7, 2026

New bass regulations for Ohio on the table

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

The Ohio Division of Wildlife is proposing to simplify statewide regulations for bass fishing, eliminating split bag and slot limits on fish in certain lakes and reservoirs.
The proposed regulations set a 12-inch size limit and a five-fish daily bag for lakes and reservoirs everywhere in Ohio. The proposed regulations went to state wildlife chief Kendra Wecker in May. The Ohio Wildlife Council will likely vote on them in September or October, according to Rich Zweifel, the division’s inland fisheries administrator.

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Christine Thomas: Airedales become butterflies at the little cabin

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Wisconsin /

“My ashes can become wildflowers, the bunnies will eat the flowers, the foxes will eat the bunnies, and I too can become a fox,” Professor Irv Korth lectured when I took Integrated Resource Management from him at the UW-Stevens Point (UW-SP) College of Natural Resources (CNR) in 1978.
UW-SP CNR alums will remember this tall, thin man with a dry sense of humor as the guy who collected outhouse photos and lectured on them (a subject for another article).

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Decline in returning young loons to Upper Midwest? Banding project sheds light

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For over 30 years, the Upper Midwest-based Loon Project has been banding and studying the birds. Walter Piper, a professor at Chapman University in California, started songbirds in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1992, but had a lifelong interest in loons.

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Pennsylvania agencies coming to grips with open fields decision

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The recent landmark Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision – ruling that warrantless searches of private property by state game wardens and state waterways conservation officers violate the state  Constitution – may have far-reaching consequences.
The precedent-setting, 7-0 decision, rendered July 21, rejects the long-established open fields doctrine and provides property owners with a greater right to privacy than does the U.S. Constitution.

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Gretchen Steele: Illinois’ summer heat is a burden, but also a ‘wildlife manager’

Featured, Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky /

It was barely daylight, and I was already out on one of the trails at Illinois’ Pyramid State Park, wondering what in the world had possessed me.
Heat and I have never gotten along. These days it flattens me flat, and it sends my MS into a full-blown snit. So much so that if one more well-meaning family member suggests I get one of those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” gadgets, somebody is getting slugged.

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Oak Duke: The moon and the deer

Featured, Hunting, New York /

With deer season now on the horizon, a hunting buddy skeptically asked over a grill at a cookout, “How can the moon affect the rut?
Deer hunter talk. Sure… he was baiting, knowing full well that I’ve been a proponent of the theory that the moon indeed has not only an effect on the timing of the whitetail rut, especially here in the temperate latitudes, but can be used as an indicator, a prediction model.

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