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Ohio’s deer archery hunt off to ambitious start

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Deer hunters in Ohio arrowed straight and true during the first four days of the state’s 2026-2027 archery deer hunting season.
The figures tell the tale of the tape. For the first four days of this archery deer hunting season, Ohio’s deer hunters killed 8,483 animals, among which were 3,435 antlered deer. For the comparable 2025-2026 archery season start-up period, the figures were 5,333 and 1,908 deer, respectively. All of which is a good-news beginning, says John “Clint” McCoy, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s deer program administrator.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Who’s minding our public lands in Ohio?

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“Wildlife habitats are crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ecological balance, providing essential resources for various species. Protecting these habitats ensures the survival of wildlife and the health of ecosystems, which ultimately benefits human populations as well.” – Artificial Intelligence (AI)
My goodness, if Artificial Intelligence can properly articulate the importance of protecting and enhancing habitat, you’d think wildlife agency officials would grasp the consequences of failure.

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Sportfishing group sounds alarm on tariffs

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If U.S. anglers thought they were immune from the sniping via the U.S./Canadian trade war, they need a fresh slap in the face of Great Lakes water.
Mike Leonard, vice president of government affairs for the American Sportfishing Association (ASA), announced Aug. 25 that Canada has installed a “new round of retaliatory tariffs that will take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Sept. 8.”
“Of particular relevance to the sportfishing industry, Canada will impose a 50% tariff on U.S.-origin fishing rods classified under Canadian tariff item 9507.10.90, ‘Fishing rods: Other,’” Leonard said in a prepared statement.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Striving to be a well-rounded conservationist in a tough political climate

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“The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20% traitor.” — Ronald Reagan
We are in peculiar political times, even reminiscent of antebellum America when states began to take sides for the inevitable Civil War. And no less worse, whole families were torn asunder into rivaling philosophical and political camps. Today, the country is at such a crossroads, facing the Nov. 3 election as to which trail the nation will take – and very possibly – embroiling us all in a no-win battle. As something of a microcosm of the nation’s voters are its sportsmen.

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Wildlife Production Areas are hidden hunting gems around Ohio

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For some savvy Ohio hunters, finding a piece of public ground is to think small, not big.
And in the process these mostly bird and rabbit hunters have cornered the market on finding wild pheasants, a warren of cottontails and even a smattering here-and-there covey of quail. Toss in a cagey white-tailed deer, and such parcels become coveted havens peppering a portion of Ohio’s minimally available public hunting landscape.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Take proper care of your hunting companion

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Summertime is when the living is intended to be easy or so goes the George Gershwin tune.
That’s also what many gun dog owners say about themselves and their canine hunting buddies. Problem is, a life that’s too easy in the summer means problems for the hunter – and especially – for the bird dogs, rabbit hounds, and retrievers come the fall hunting season.

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Ohio’s Outdoor Trailblazers: Mary Mertz reflects on eight years at the helm of ODNR

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As Ohio’s director of the Ohio DNR, Mary Mertz was no stranger to working with – and answering to – Gov. Mike DeWine, the state’s 70th governor.
And Mertz certainly came to the ODNR with the bonafides necessary to deal with the governor, the legislature, and a public that can quickly offer praise one moment and then carry the torches and scythes the next. Mertz will leave her office Jan. 11, 2027 whether the new governor is Republican or Democrat.

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Ohio DNR, DOW set to benefit from new capital budget

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The Ohio General Assembly untied the state’s purse strings and gave the Ohio DNR more than $265 million for various capital improvement projects over the next two years.
This largesse was just part of the legislature’s biennium (every two years) $3.7 billion Capital Improvement Budget and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine. It is important to remember that a biennium Capital Improvement Budget is the flip-side of the state’s money authorization coin, the also biennium State Operating Budget.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Reel Recovery organization offers help after cancer diagnosis

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Words create worlds.

Or so says 20th-century Hebrew philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Words can install fear, provide comfort, change a person’s attitude, enlighten and encourage, or shred confidence and leave permanent scars. I was fishing, actually, when my first urologist made a personal phone call with words that created my new world. “Jeff, I’m afraid you have Stage 2 prostate cancer,” said the doctor, who later noted that he “never uses the word ‘cured,’ only ‘long-term remission.’”

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