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Survey demonstrates outstanding popularity of U.S. Wildlife Refuges

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From birders to goose and deer hunters to walkers and hikers, people flock to the nearly 11,300-acre Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Ohio, sandwiched between Toledo and Port Clinton along Lake Erie.
And while Ottawa – as it is typically referred to by hunters and birders – is Ohio’s only National Wildlife Refuge, it’s far from the only one in the system.

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What can Ohio hunters expect during the 2025 waterfowl season?

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Waterfowlers are the gamblers of Ohio’s hunting landscape. Even more so than their counterparts for deer and turkey. The waterfowler’s day may confront a host of enfeebling conditions, even during a several-week season.
Ohio Outdoor News approached the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s chief waterfowl biologist, Michael Ervin, for his take on this year’s coming Ohio waterfowl hunting seasons. That’s plural, too, since the state’s duck/goose hunting scene is a myriad of zones, and a  series of opening and closing dates.

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Ohio’s fall turkey hunting success may be best in southwest due to last spring’s cicada emergence

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More than a few archery deer hunters pay their money to buy a deer tag and likely also buy a fall turkey permit, whereupon then say, “Oh, what the heck, what do I have to lose?”
They then proceed to pack along their turkey tag. And consequently, may face an interesting conundrum if a flock of birds happen to wander by. “Do I risk spooking a buck or do I settle for a dozen-pound jake or hen turkey?”

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Come to Pennsylvania’s Cross Fork for the trout, stay for the beauty

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Cross Fork doesn’t have a big box outlet, much less one of those dollar-type stores, the ones we used to call five-and-dime stores when I was growing up.

A dot on the map along Pennsylvania’s Route 44, Cross Fork does, though, have between 129 and 155 souls, nearly 93% of whom live in households without kids. Not surprising, given that the average age of a Cross Fork resident is 64 years, compared to the 38 years nationally, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Thus, I am inclined to say that in my 56-year association with Cross Fork, I haven’t seen much in the way of change.

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Lake Erie ‘on the doorstep’ of having many trophy walleyes to chase

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Then again, anglers hoping for a Fish Ohio-qualifying walleye of at least 28 inches are similarly flummoxed. No wonder since while Lake Erie’s total walleye population is eye-popping huge, not so the kind of fish destined for mounting. Or winning an autumn-based fishing derby.

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Fishing license sales still a sharp hook nationally

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If Lake Erie’s Western Basin seems to be more crowded with walleye anglers or that Nimisila Reservoir is experiencing bass boat traffic jams, don’t be surprised.

Even your local town or county metroparks fishing hole is being more frequently visited by anglers looking for a good time and possibly tomorrow night’s fish fry dinner. And not just in Ohio, either. The trend toward more people recreating by wetting a line is growing as “the United States has witnessed an unprecedented surge in fishing license sales in 2024 …” reports FishingLicenseUSA,” a clearinghouse of sorts for sport fishing statistics.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: White perch, the beauty and/or bane of recreational anglers everywhere

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Heralded as an attractive anglers’ target from North Carolina to Maine, the native and ubiquitous white perch earns no such honors west of the Atlantic Seaboard. Just the opposite, in fact, including in Ohio.
Its migration originally blocked by Niagara Falls, the white perch bided its time until the Weland Canal was built. Then – just the same way the sea lamprey did – the white perch quickly went from friend to foe. In Lake Erie and in inland impoundments through (likely) accidental releases from bait bucket-armed anglers.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Ultra-popular in Europe, but not so much for carp in the United States

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If ever a poster child for invasive species existed, the barbel-face of the common carp would strike a defining pose on any biological wanted poster. For good reason, at least in the United States. Back in the Old Country, not so much. Just the opposite, in fact it appears.
And we’re talking a pretty wide swath of the Northern Hemisphere from the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean clear to the waters of the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is a huge swath of the Old World where the carp has long held the title of the best of the rest.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Be mindful of fireworks’ impact on your pets this holiday weekend

Blogs, Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion /

“Ka-boom!” may find a welcome greeting in many households this three-day July Fourth Holiday weekend, but the joy does not extend to the family pets. 
Particularly if somehow the dog, cat, goat, or pot-belly pig can find a way to escape. And don’t go thinking that a firecracker or a Roman candle is the same as gunfire. They are not. Far from it, with the way each is built and how they react.

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