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Ohio fisheries biologists seeing success with sturgeon stocking efforts

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

The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife fisheries biologists in charge of lake sturgeon reintroduction in the state are encouraged about the program’s progress so far.
So says Eric Weimer, fisheries biologist supervisor for the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s Sandusky Fisheries Research Station, and who is leading the state’s sturgeon reintroduction effort.

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Ohio’s Outdoor Trailblazers: Kristina Smith is an all-things-outdoors writer

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

Kristina Smith to this day stops her car on the road to help a struggling leopard frog get to the other side.
Her deep connection to nature is something that’s been ingrained in her since she was a child and she’s turned that into a pretty good outdoor writing career here in Ohio. Growing up in Defiance, Smith’s parents (Al and Faith) were always “super into the outdoors,” she says.

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Ohio Insider: New website makes it easier to order native trees and seedlings

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

The tree nursery, just a few years old out by Zanesville, currently has about a half million trees growing on the property with the ultimate goal of growing up to 1.5 million trees, according to Parrott. The tree nursery grows trees for conservation projects throughout the state of Ohio.

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Griggs Reservoir a good place for hybrid striped bass near Columbus

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Ohio /

The metro area around the city of Columbus is dotted all around by bodies of water that offer decent fishing opportunities.
Griggs Reservoir on the city’s northwest side is a shining example. From catfish to hybrid striped bass, this ribbon of water on the Scioto River corridor offers plenty of species for which to wet a line.

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Ohio Insider: Hard to fathom the things poachers do on social media

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

I guess I just don’t understand the appeal of poaching fish or game and then posting the spoils of such crimes on social media.
This topic is front of mind right now due to a couple of recent cases that were adjudicated in Ohio. A short recap of both cases is in order in case you missed them in recent issues of Ohio Outdoor News.

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Southwest Ohio’s Eastwood Lake offers decent bass fishing

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Ohio /

Anglers in the Dayton area enjoy a variety of fishing opportunities within the Five Rivers Metroparks system.
One of those offerings is Eastwood Lake, an 185-acre, mile long impoundment that was created as a byproduct of gravel mining operations. The lake was completed in 1972 with two goals in mind: to provide water recreation opportunities for the community and to protect the public water supply.

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Ohio Insider: Drone surveys show deer at or near healthy levels in counties hit hard by EHD last year

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

It’s well known by now that thousands of southeast Ohio whitetails succumbed to epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) last summer.
The epidemic was so bad, in fact, that it caused the ODNR Division of Wildlife to alter the deer bag limit in a handful of Ohio counties midstream last year.

Ohio Insider: Drone surveys show deer at or near healthy levels in counties hit hard by EHD last year Read More »

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