Mid-journey, they learned their destination would be the 460,000- acre Cleveland National Forest. It lies northeast of San Diego in rugged, mountainous country. Their job was to assume the responsibilities of the forest’s regular staff that had been dispatched to fight an active fire elsewhere.
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Ken Fitz, former executive administrator of law enforcement for the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife, died on Feb. 1 following a lengthy illness. He was 61.
Fitz hailed from Sandusky and worked for the division for 29 years in a variety of capacities, according to Kandy Klosterman, the division’s current executive administrator of law enforcement.
Former Ohio Division of Wildlife law chief, Ken Fitz, dies at 61 Read More »
A simple track in the snow and a bit of scat served to delight county wildlife officer Nick Oliver and research technician Doug Wensink on Jan. 8, during the annual river otter survey in Ohio.
The survey looks at 422 sites around the state for evidence of river otters. For the first time, the pair spotted solid evidence that river otters had spread south and west to Champaign County.
Evidence of river otters found at Ohio’s Mad River for first time during annual survey Read More »
Detailed text messages and a widely-circulated photo proved to be the undoing of Christopher “C.J.” Alexander in a landmark deer poaching case.
Alexander, 28, of Wilmington, Ohio, is serving six months at STAR Community Justice Center in Clinton County for the illegal taking of a record 18-point buck on Nov. 9, 2023. Alexander killed the buck on property where he did not have permission to hunt and without a hunting license. He then took elaborate steps to conceal the crime, according to information from the ODNR Division of Wildlife (DOW).
When Scott Hale retired in December as the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife’s (DOW) executive administrator of fish management, he could look back on 40 years of improvements, challenges, and successes in the world of piscatory oversight.
Hale was introduced to the world of angling very early in life. By the time he reached his sophomore year in high school, he was focused on becoming a fisheries biologist.
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It’s been a long-standing argument of the Save Ohio Parks group that oil and gas drilling rigs pose both a human and environmental threat to state parks and wildlife areas. The group opposes drilling.
An explosion and fire at a Gulfport Appalachia pad near Salt Fork State Park in early January might have added fuel to that fire.
Drilling pad near Salt Fork State Park is site of well blaze in Ohio Read More »
More than 4,300 acres – mostly in Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in Belmont County – was nominated for oil and gas drilling on Dec. 18, according to the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission.
Under Ohio’s 2011 law that permitted oil and gas extraction from state parks and wildlife areas, a parcel of land must first be nominated for drilling. If the nomination is approved by the commission, the parcel is open for bidding by various drilling companies.
Egypt Valley Wildlife Area parcels get nominated in Ohio drilling plan Read More »
More than 30 acres at Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in Belmont County are open to fracking, following action by the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission on Dec. 9.
A winning bid to lease the parcel’s mineral rights was submitted by Gulfport Appalachia LLC. Gulfport Appalachia was also awarded the lease for nearly five acres along State Route 800 in Monroe County. That parcel is owned by the Ohio Department of Transportation (DOT).
More Ohio public land opened for drilling Read More »
Efforts by a state legislator and local officials to reintroduce elk into parts of southern Ohio are opposed by the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife (DOW).
Following an Oct. 30 meeting initiated by state Sen. Shane Wilkin to gather input on elk reintroduction, the wildlife division issued a position statement on the subject that laid out multiple reasons why it shouldn’t happen.
Ohio Division of Wildlife opposes elk reintroduction Read More »
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