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Steve Pollick: Ohio summer welcomes burst of fireflies

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

Welcome to Summer, season of the “Silent Light,” to play on the name of the classic Christmas hymn.
The Silent Light I’m talking about here comes from fireflies, those magical, marvelous, winged beetles that noiselessly light up summer nights with green flashes. Lightning without thunder. Here on Froggy Bottom this year, I spied the first fireflies at dusk during evenings the last week of May. Now my bottomland is a nightly star-twinkling treat with hundreds of them emitting the blinks of distinctive light.

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Steve Pollick: Gov. Mike DeWine needs to step up for H2Ohio’s sake

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

Gov. Mike DeWine quickly is approaching fish-or-cut-bait time for his well-known signature conservation program, H2Ohio.
Term-limited, he faces a veto-proof supermajority of unenthused fellow Republicans in the state legislature, who last time around slashed the two-year budget for H2Ohio by 39%, from $270 million to just $165 million. Lawmakers apparently thought H2Ohio was not spending its money quickly enough so they diverted $105 million to other projects.

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Bit of history made with sauger stocking in western Lake Erie

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

A little bit of history was made on the Sandusky River on May 28 – about 65,000 “little bits,” actually – in the form of fingerling sauger that were stocked at Fremont by the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
The fingerlings, about an inch and a half long each, were little more than two eyes and a wiggle, but they carried a big promise: To restore a fishery that was extirpated by the 1950s because of overharvest and loss of habitat.

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Steve Pollick: A wise use of land, natural resources

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

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.

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Steve Pollick: Great strides (hope) afoot on Ohio’s Sandusky Bay

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

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.

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Feral hog bill struck down in Ohio by appeals court

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

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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Steve Pollick: Turkey, black vultures are survivors

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio /

“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.

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Steve Pollick: Dissecting the timing of when bucks shed their antlers

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

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?

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