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Here are some of the best ways to handle your deer in CWD areas

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Deer hunting season is underway and now that northwest Ohio has an area where chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected in multiple deer and appears to be spreading, some hunters are electing to have harvested deer tested for the deadly disease.
The 2023-24 Ohio Hunting and Trapping Regulations, pages 13 to 15, has information about the disease and some of the special opportunities and obligations for those hunting in areas where it has been found. For example, in the three-county Disease Surveillance Area (DSA) of Hardin, Marion, and Wyandot counties, mandatory in-person deer check-ins are required for certain dates at listed locations.

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A look at Lake Erie’s aliens and ‘spooky’ creatures

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Halloween reminds some of Lake Erie’s strangest and spookiest creatures. Some are native to the Great Lakes, but others are by definition, “aliens” from elsewhere after being carried in ships or swimming through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Although there are smaller species of harmless native lampreys, the sea lamprey gained entrance into the four upper Great Lakes by swimming through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Nicknamed the vampire eel, parasitic lampreys have a round, tooth-filled mouth instead of true jaws like eels that rasp holes through the skin or scales of other fish to “drink” their bodily fluids.

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Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s nutrient reduction approved

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Despite concerns from water quality watchdogs that say Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Maumee Watershed nutrient total daily maximum load (TMDL) does not address the causes of Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms (HABs), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rubber-stamped the plan on Sept. 28. 
Even though the U.S. EPA found that the Ohio EPA plan complies with the statutory and regulatory of Section 303 (d) of the Clean Water Act, Lake Erie Waterkeeper Director Sandy Bihn calls it an “awful plan to reduce harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.” The U.S. EPA acknowledged the hundreds of comments, including from retired Ohio Sea Grant Director Jeff Reutter, that criticized the Ohio EPA’s TMDL plan as having no chances of fixing the problem.

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Ohio State University, Ohio Division of Wildlife undertake large coyote study, and hunters and trappers can help

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There is a new multi-year Ohio State University/Ohio Division of Wildlife statewide study underway that is investigating multiple aspects of coyote-livestock conflicts.
Now that hunting seasons are opening, the coyote researchers wanted to be sure to alert hunters and trappers of their project in the event that they would be willing to help them obtain samples. The overall purpose of this project is to provide practical information to minimize livestock-coyote conflict in Ohio. The project is also doing an in-depth diet analysis for coyotes across Ohio to determine what Ohio coyotes are eating.

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National Wildlife Refuge in Ohio names marsh in honor of John Gradel

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

In a poignant ceremony led by Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Manager Jason Lewis, a sign was unveiled along one of the wetland cells in the Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge.
As three generations of the family looked on, this 155-acre marsh unit that borders some Gradel Farms property was officially named the John Gradel Marsh. This dedication was a formal way of recognizing the long partnership of John Gradel, Sr., who passed away in April, and the Gradel family for their contributions to restoring, protecting, and enhancing this coastal wetland.

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Parasitic wasps engaged in fight against emerald ash borer in Ohio

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In 2002, people began seeing sick and dying ash trees in the Windsor/Detroit area, and after some investigations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors, the cause was determined to be from an invasive insect called the emerald ash borer (EAB).
This exotic pest was likely brought over in shipping pallets from China in the 1990s. Since then, it has decimated native ash tree species throughout North America. They were first seen in northwestern Ohio the following year.
After determining that no such native insect would effectively prey upon EABs, selected species of parasitoid wasps from their native ranges in China, Korea, and Russia were targeted by the USDA to test for liberation into North America. Thus far, four species have been approved with more expected to follow.

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Public again will help stock sturgeon into Ohio’s Maumee River during ‘Sturgeon Fest’ on Oct. 7

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For a chance to hold a fish that has existed, according to the fossil record, virtually unchanged for approximately 200 million years, the Toledo Zoo is inviting the public to attend the fifth showing of “Sturgeon Fest.”
It has been scheduled for Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the city of Toledo, Ohio, boat launch along the banks of the Maumee River, at 2700 Broadway Street.

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Ohio loses a pair of fishing legends in “Bud” Gehring, Elmer Heyob

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Within the past month, the angling community lost a couple of well-known Ohio outdoorsmen. 
While each were avid and successful deer hunters too, they were both more widely known for their fishing knowledge and skills that they shared with thousands of anglers from Ohio and beyond.  
“Bud” Gehring, age 82, passed away on July 30 in Port Clinton as he was about to head out for a day of yellow perch fishing on Lake Erie. Elmer Heyob, age 67, known by many statewide as “Mr. Muskie,” succumbed to cancer while in hospice care on Aug. 8.

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Channel cats are becoming much more common catch on Lake Erie

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As has been reported by several charter captains, local anglers, and then experienced first-hand in mid-July by this reporter, the channel catfish population in Lake Erie has swelled to numbers too big to ignore.
While fishing between Kelleys Island and Middle Island and other prime island-area walleye waters during July, a group of six anglers landed more than 25 channel catfish while tossing mayfly rigs baited with half-pieces of nightcrawler.

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