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.
Steve Pollick
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.
A shot passed up is sometimes a good thing
Author forgoes shooting at “iffy” target.
Deer camp venison recipe sure to please
The author offers up a new culinary favorite.
Metroparks offers guide to everything mushroom
Pocket field guide can be downloaded online
Deer gun season is in the sights in Ohio
Make sure your weapon is up to speed before you get into the field this season.
Make your opinion known on Mohican timbering
Mohican Memorial State Forest in Ashland County. (Ohio DNR)The North Central Ohio Land Conservancy and its legion of supporters are circulating a petition urging Gov. John Kasich and Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof (R-Medina) to protect the 4,525-acre Mohican Memorial State Forest in Ashland County from timbering and to foster ecotourism there instead. At issue is a long-term plan by…
Ohio’s ‘Wilds’ earns top DNR award
Former strip-mined land home to many exotic species.
A painful lesson in getting bow ready for the season
Traditional arrow-strings will stretch with use, so you need to pay attention to fistmele, or brace-height, on your bow. And I need to follow my own advice.
Western Basin of Lake Erie dodges algae bullet
But without further measures, circumstances could be dire.
Survey: Grass carp present in low numbers in Sandusky River
Bad news is that they’re there at all.
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