Winter bird feeding entertains, educates
Writer enjoys watching birds over the bead on the barrels of his double-barrel shotgun well enough, but also enjoys watching them at his feeding stations every winter day.
Steve Pollick
Be wary of ticks in the deer woods this season
It is a little thing, easily ignored, overlooked, or forgotten, but potentially with big consequences – a bite from an infected tick. And while disease-bearing ticks can be a problem year-round, deer hunters should be especially wary. We spend long hours in the woods, deep off trails, often in heavy cover, and often with back and head propped again a…
Dead owl yet another tragic example of society’s overuse of potent chemicals
Insecticides, pesticides, and mouse poison rule the day.
Monarch summer a bust this year
Too many bugs doomed author’s patch.
Trail cam sighting stirs up memories of regal bucks of yesteryear
Author getting tuned up for Saturday’s bow opener in Ohio.
Deer ‘stakeholders’ group does due diligence
In these early days of deer season in the Northern Zone, numerous hunters are putting their boots on the ground trying to locate doe groups and buck sign like rubs and scrapes and even bedding areas. If you find all of these attributes then you know you have a buck to hunt, and that’s all a backwoods hunter can ask…
Butterfly phenomena in northern Ohio was a sight to behold
Storm pushed millions of butterflies into secluded, sequestered sites.
The owls have it on Ohio Wildlife Legacy Stamp
Resident’s photo will grace the 2019 habitat stamp.
Summit Metro Parks letter spot-on about endangered species protection
Northeast Ohio organization takes on USFWS policies.
Teach kids hunting at the appropriate age
Very young kids have no business doing anything more than tagging along, not pulling triggers. They are too immature to understand what they are doing. Much responsibility comes with pulling the trigger.
Don’t let pond vegetation get ahead of you
Writer learns this lesson the hard way with fish kills.
Ohio-based bird group questions study on wind farm
Oak Harbor, Ohio — The proposed Icebreaker/LEEDCo offshore wind project, which would place up to six huge wind turbines in central Lake Erie, eight miles from downtown Cleveland, poses a significant hazard to both birds and bats moving across or living on the lake, says the Oak Harbor-based Black Swamp Bird Observatory. BSBO recently issued a position statement on Icebreaker,…
Patience, persistence and other life lessons learned picking berries
Writer’s brood learns their lessons well.
Grass carp do their job, sometimes too well
Lake Erie tributaries have them but they are different from their sterile cousins.
ODNR needs your help with turkey, grouse counts
Sightings can be submitted on website.
Monarch butterflies can use all the help they can get
Public can assist by planting milkweed.
This turkey season, keep an eye out for ‘other’ birds, too
Ohio is a major migratory corridor for many species.
Celebrating a fine eco-Samaritan, and others like him
Mindless wastefulness uglies America’s roadsides.
Ohio DNR errs in allowing dogs to roam beaches
The official announcement curiously was carefully crafted to avoid explaining why Fido should be allowed to run free, contrary to a long-standing rule, on parks’ beaches through May 18. It simply told Ohioans to go for it.
The Old Man grows fond of his trail camera
OK, OK, true confession: I am a grumpy old man, slow to embrace the latest and greatest in outdoors gear and technology. But I am starting to grow fond of a trail camera. My kids, all-in in the Great Technology and Gadget Era, thought it was just the thing for The Old Man on his 70th birthday. They just shake their…
Awarded officer went out of his way to make things good
Jeremy Payne, FOP Lodge 143 President, congratulates Investigator Bury on receipt of his award. (ODNR Division of Wildlife) Sometimes, it’s personal. So I am especially pleased that Ohio Wildlife Investigator Brian Bury, assigned to the Lake Erie Unit, has been name Wildlife Officer of the Year by Wildlife Officer Lodge 143, of the Fraternal Order of Police of the State…
An ode to an old forest friend
Author’s Austrian pine finally succumbs to the elements.
Turkey sightings in northwestern Ohio reason for hope
Area previously devoid of such critters.
DNR to combine all law enforcement training
Cost-cutting move said to provide more uniformity.
Back to the Wild: A snowy owl’s journey
Ohio rehab center nurses bird back to health, culminating with an almost religious experience that was its return to the wild.
If you fill the feeders, they will come
Take your bird-feeding responsibility seriously.
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