Ohio’s 2025 spring wild turkey hunters who are running and gunning are largely experiencing a repeat performance.
As of April 28, the 2025 spring turkey harvest total “has closely mirrored the harvest over the same period in both 2023 and 2024,” says Mark Wiley, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s biologist in charge of everything wild turkey for the state.
More than 10,000 turkeys killed so far in Ohio’s South Zone Read More »
You have your assembler and then you have your collector.
The first person is a generalist and the second person is a specialist. Then too, you can keep shaving off layers until such a fine point is reached that the individual becomes an exotic expert in the field. For instance, you can assemble a gun cabinet with various kinds of firearms but that doesn’t make you a collector. You’re an assembler, more or less.
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When the Ohio General Assembly and the Mike DeWine Administration crafted the state’s pro-fracking initiative, the cherry on top was how 30% of all the so-called “bonus money” goes back to the impacted state park or wildlife area.
Such an infusion of cash was earmarked for capital improvements at the specific park or wildlife area. Yet I would bet that folks would not believe that half of the $20 million taken from the Ohio DNR’s Land Royalty Fund would go to Salt Fork State Park’s publicly owned/privately run lodge for “upgrades to the rooms.”
Jeff Frischkorn: Where is the ‘bonus money’ going from state park fracking in Ohio? Read More »
It was Kid’s Day-Plus-Two during Ohio’s youth-only wild turkey hunting season, April 12 and April 13.
With nearly 7,000 youth turkey tags issued, the participants – all of whom were age 17 and under and accompanied by a non-hunting mentor – successfully bagged 1,740 male (gobbler) turkeys. That figure is a very nearly parallel track with the number of birds killed during the 2023 season (1,785 turkeys) and a couple hundred more birds than for the 2022 to 2024 three-year average of 1,571 turkeys.
Ohio youth hunters kill 1,740 gobblers during two-day season Read More »
Fewer Ohioans are seeking a concealed carry permit, while also a shrinking number who hold such documentation are renewing the ones they were issued.
Even so, the Ohio Attorney General – who is responsible for compiling the statistics targeting concealed carry – has no problem with so-called “constitutional carry.” And he says as well that a concealed carry license does have its benefits.
Concealed carry permit becoming less popular in Ohio Read More »
Creeks like to talk about themselves, the chatter being light and happy when the water flows and such are running normally.
And yet when storms set the mood on edge and the banks are being buffeted by an outpouring of muddy water, well, the language is much different. One that isn’t fit to be heard in mixed company, let alone in the presence of children. On Monday, my little stream made its greeting a cherry one, saying it had missed me. Of course, I missed my little fishing buddy, too.
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Streams say a lot for those willing to listen Read More »
A 15-foot by 21-foot quarantine triage complex may not strike one as being filled with creaturely comforts, yet when one is dealing with birds, bunnies, and bobcats, such a center is expected to meet the demands of treating injured and ill wildlife.
Plus, the complex and equipment will cost Lake County’s Lake Metroparks system in Ohio only $100,000, and the project will prove a lifesaver for wildlife. And the structure will help ensure the safety of the agency’s Kevin P. Clinton Wildlife Center employees.
Ohio wildlife center taking bird flu precautions with new quarantine facility Read More »
It’s been a hard snow shovel of a winter if you’re human.
Not so much, however, for fish, wildlife, and even plants. To them, the all-too frequent wintery blasts are just part of their genetic survival strategy. Experts in their respective fields of biology and botany are not particularly concerned, either. Even for a winter that’s not entirely over.
How might cold, snowy winter in Ohio impact fish and wildlife? It varies by species Read More »
Ohio’s deer hunters didn’t shoot a record number of animals this past season, though they did score the fourth highest-ever tally with 238,137 animals.
And with fewer hunters participating, too. In fact, the 238,137 figure is more than the total number of deer taken from 1943 through 1980. Indeed, for the last day of the 2024-25 season, 834 deer were shot. That figure is more than each of these four seasons: 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1952.
Final harvest numbers show it was a good year to be a deer hunter in Ohio Read More »
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