Nine Ohio DND Division of Wildlife officer cadets training
The 33rd Ohio Wildlife Officer Training Academy is underway with nine cadets training to become wildlife officers.
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September 21, 2026
Ohio Mixed Bag: State finishes up wetland project in St. Marys on Ottawa River
As part of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio Initiative, the Ohio DNR (ODNR) and the village of Ottawa Hills held a ribbon-cutting ceremony recently to celebrate the completion of a wetland project within the village adjacent to the Ottawa River. The project includes stormwater retention and floodplain wetlands spanning a 23-acre site to improve water quality throughout the region.
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Ohio Letters to the Editor: Missing all of the old-school traditions of the fall season
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 25, 2026 edition of Ohio Outdoor News.
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Ohio Insider: New website makes it easier to order native trees and seedlings
The tree nursery, just a few years old out by Zanesville, currently has about a half million trees growing on the property with the ultimate goal of growing up to 1.5 million trees, according to Parrott. The tree nursery grows trees for conservation projects throughout the state of Ohio.
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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Urban bowhunting offers unique opportunity with potential for problem-solving required
Every time I load the truck and drive the 55 minutes to bowhunt urban deer in Rochester, Minn., I’m filled with giddy excitement and an equal pit in my stomach from nerves.
The excitement comes from the almost-guarantee that I’ll have multiple deer encounters during my hunt, with the potential for something really exciting to walk past. The nerves come from the immense pressure to make a good shot, given that I hunt small, neighborhood properties. My No. 1 goal as a hunter is always to make an ethical kill shot. That pressure is amplified immensely when I’m literally hunting in people’s back and front yards.
Lily Lake: one of Pennsylvania’s really good northern pike places
They’re native to parts of Pennsylvania, now available in additional places thanks to stocking, grow to big sizes and – let’s be honest – are just flat out cool looking in a fierce kind of way.
You’d think such a fish would draw a large following. For whatever reason, though, northern pike are not universally loved. But I’ve always liked fishing for them – tossing jerkbaits when they’re in the shallows in spring is tremendous fun – and try to do so regularly. One good place to target them throughout the year is Lily Lake in Luzerne County.
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Pennsylvania’s Outdoor Calendar
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Sept. 25, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
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Drawdowns underway at two Pennsylvania lakes
In advance of upcoming dam infrastructure improvement projects, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission announced in mid-September that drawdowns are now underway at Ford’s Lake, Lackawanna County, and Rose Valley Lake, Lycoming County.
Both waters are in the northeast region.
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Star Watch: Are we really moving? And a weekly question for readers
Aristotle, and some of the best thinkers of his time 2,000-plus years ago, thought that the Earth was stationary, and that everything else, the Sun included, revolved around us. It took 1,500 years for that theory to be proven false.
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