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Steve Pollick: It’s always a good day for a winter hike

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio /

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.

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Steve Pollick: Build brush piles for wildlife on your homestead

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

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.”

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Steve Pollick: Seasonal wetlands need protecting from today’s politics

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

If you are a duck hunter, a kayaker who loves prowling the skinny backwaters of marshlands, or a birder who revels in the sights and sounds of sandhill cranes, trumpeter and tundra swans, American pelicans, and countless springtime neotropical songbird migrants, beware the mischief afoot these days in Washington, D.C.
Me? I am an “all of the above” outdoorsman when it comes to the aforementioned activities, and I am concerned about what the Trump administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to do to what is called WOTUS – Wetlands of the United States.

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Steve Pollick: Extending the tradition of deer camp relies on ‘old, middle and new bucks’

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

Deer Camp. For a hunting clan, it is the central event of the year, a tradition to be observed and savored above all, no apologies to Thanksgiving or Christmas.
If you are lucky, you will get to share Deer Camp with two – and better still, three – generations of family members, the ones who came with the hunting gene. Shoppers and golfers need not apply. Each generation brings something else to the table.

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Steve Pollick: First skiff of snow signals bird feeding should begin

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

The first skiffs of snow painted Froggy Bottom with white highlights on Nov. 10, then Froggy Pond iced over for the first time this season on Nov. 11.
Nature’s clock told me it was time to start my winter bird feeding routine. I dutifully cleaned and hung out my 11 feeders – which I scatter across the back “Forty” to provide a variety of venues.

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Ohio’s Outdoor Trailblazers: Eunice Koebel’s secret to great wildlife photos? ‘Click like crazy’

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

Eunice Koebel is an unassuming, retired elementary music teacher who has a long-time fascination with bald eagles.
She also has learned to make exquisite images of the great raptors – America’s national bird and symbol since 1782 – and other large birds such as various hawks, sandhill cranes, turkey vultures, great blue herons, and common egrets.

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Steve Pollick: Science behind leaf color changes is truly fascinating

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

Apologies to the mythical Jack Frost. It isn’t you who paints the autumn leaves in their brilliant colors.
As quaint as fairy tales and make-believe can be, especially for the young and young-at-heart, the real story behind the annual color-change in autumn tree leaves is fascinating and true in its own right. So, sorry Jack.

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