The 56th observation of Earth Day ambled past on April 22, and it was cause here for some ruminations about how much we take for granted living on this Blue Marble, or Pale Blue Dot, as this planet has been called. Consider the air we breathe.
Steve Pollick: A reality check in regards to protecting our land and water Read More »
A recent swing through Amish country down by the Ohio River gave pause to admire the quiet evidence of forward-thinking land stewardship practiced by these “horse-and-buggy” communities.
The occasion for my visit was the “Amish Birding Symposium,” recently renamed the Adams County Birding Symposium.
Steve Pollick: A wise use of land, natural resources Read More »
Not so many years ago, a friend and I paddled kayaks down lower Pickerel Creek on the south side of Sandusky Bay in Ohio’s 3,200-acre Pickerel Creek State Wildlife Area.
It was enjoyable, a pleasant late-spring adventure highlighted by migrating songbirds and nesting waterfowl. But the scenery was a mite dull. Long ago, the creek largely was straightened, channelized, to hasten runoff of silt – prime farmland eroded by carelessness.
Steve Pollick: Great strides (hope) afoot on Ohio’s Sandusky Bay Read More »
A new and already-amended Ohio law that would ban the importation and hunting of feral swine has been put on hold, again.
That comes with the recent affirmation by the Ohio 4th District Court of Appeals of an Adams County Common Pleas Court decision that ruled in a highly-detailed, 53-page decision in favor of a local hunting preserve, Shawnee Ridge Hunting, of Stout, Ohio.
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“If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.” – William Faulkner
Ah, yes, the iconic novelist William Faulkner nailed it when it came to his view of the big black birds that almost nobody pays any attention to – turkey vultures and black vultures. But both species are of note this time of year, for different reasons.
Steve Pollick: Turkey, black vultures are survivors Read More »
Imagine my surprise recently when reviewing overnight trail-cam photos, that a handsome little 6-point buck showed up several times near my mineral licks. A rack, still, in early March?
Late-shedding bucks, and this “sixer” clearly is one, always catch my attention. After all, we “know” that most Ohio bucks shed their racks in these latitudes in late December and January or sometimes into February. And we “know” that bucks usually shed or cast their antlers about the same time every year. But this late?
Steve Pollick: Dissecting the timing of when bucks shed their antlers Read More »
One of the rewards for spending long, cold, lonely hours parked on backroads as a volunteer bald eagle nest-watcher in Ohio is that you might just find a new eagle nest.
Just that happened to me, a long-time nest-watcher, in mid-January. My nest-watching goes back perhaps 40 years but for two years now I have joined nest-watch volunteers in the Sandusky County Park District.
Steve Pollick: Eagle nest watching is important business in Ohio Read More »
It was a foggy, drizzly-smeary kind of day, 50-ish by afternoon, unseasonably mild for the day after Christmas. Perfect time for a winter hike.
Shelly and Mark Goodman, veteran hikers and nature fans from Columbus, Ohio, had laid down an invitation for a no-matter-the-weather hike at the lovely, undulating woodlands of Highbanks Metropark north of the sprawling, noisy metropolis.
Steve Pollick: It’s always a good day for a winter hike Read More »
If you are casting about for a New Year’s resolution to follow in 2026, here’s an easy one that your local wildlife populations will thank you for: Build a brush pile.
Brush piles are magnets for all manner of furred and feathered creatures, and once you get one – or a few – up and running, you are going to notice an uptick in wildlife presence on your “back 40.”
Steve Pollick: Build brush piles for wildlife on your homestead Read More »
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