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New nature preserve created on Ohio’s Little Darby Creek

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

A total of 430 acres along Little Darby Creek became Ohio’s 144th state nature preserve during a dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting on June 28.
As a state nature preserve, the area will have special protection against modification, encroachment, or other use that would destroy its natural beauty and aesthetic value. Ohio DNR Director Mary Mertz said the dedication culminates more than 10 years of work on the part of the agency to purchase and protect land along Little Darby Creek.

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Big ginseng bust comes down in Ohio

Blogs, National News, News, Ohio, Opinion /

West Virginia resident Tony L. Coffman, once featured on the popular History Channel program about the illegal ginseng trade, is scheduled for sentencing in federal court in Columbus on July 20 for trafficking wild American ginseng root. Operation “Root of all Evil” involved multiple suspects, Midwest states. Ginseng seeds must be replanted where a plant is harvested. Digging season runs from early September to early December in Ohio.

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Deer Creek Lodge renovation in central Ohio a work in progress

Blogs, News, Ohio, Opinion /

Work to remodel and update Deer Creek State Park Lodge is moving forward with a new main entrance now completed and the 110 guest rooms undergoing $6 million in renovations.
The lodge, built in 1979, has long needed updating – as do many of the eight state park lodges. The DeWine Administration has promised to do that work in the next few years.

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Big archery event coming back to Ohio’s Putnam County June 23-25

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

The R100 National Archery Tour is returning to Ohio following a three-year hiatus.
This year’s event is set for the weekend of June 23-25 at the Leipsic Fishing And Hunting Club, which is located at 10605 Road H in the Village of Ottawa.
The tour is sponsored by Rinehart Targets, the world’s largest manufacturer of 3-D archery targets. The COVID-19 pandemic and other concerns has kept the tour out of Ohio since 2019.

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Ohio University study shows state could support limited bobcat trapping

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

Ohio could support a limited bobcat trapping season, based on results of a recent three-year study of the wild felines by researchers at Ohio University.
That was the message Mike Reynolds, administrator of wildlife management for the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife, delivered to the Ohio Wildlife Council in April. The division is now in the process of drafting a management plan for the wild cats whose population in the state has increased dramatically over the last 20 or so years, according to Katie Dennison, furbearer biologist with the Division of Wildlife.

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Ohio DNR culls 132 more deer in the CWD zone as part of targeted removal efforts

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

There’s good news from the Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Area (DSA) in Marion, Hardin and Wyandot counties.
“I can’t say the disease is spreading there,” Mike Reynolds told the Ohio Wildlife Council in April. Reynolds is executive administrator of wildlife management for the Ohio Division of Wildlife (DOW).
His conclusion came while reporting on a targeted deer removal effort on private and public lands in the DSA.

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Fourth-graders raising trout for Ohio’s Wolf Run Lake

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, News, Ohio /

Fourth grade students at Shenandoah Elementary School in Noble County are learning important lessons in environmental science thanks to a “Trout In the Classroom” program.
Sponsored by the Ohio Council of Trout Unlimited and the Ohio DNR, the program teaches students to care for animals in their natural habitat in a way that is both fun and educational.

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