Scourge of the ash borer evident on Froggy Bottom
Author clearing dead ash trees from his homestead
Steve Pollick
Take advantage of some super – and cheap – Ohio trout fishing
ODNR offers sessions for adults and youth.
Tundra swan flocks light up the Ohio sky
Some of the big birds indeed winter in Ohio.
Sight of buffleheads soothes on a cold winter’s night
A waterfowler’s season is never over, even when the trusty, weatherbeaten old shotgun is cleaned and racked and the bags of decoys and other paraphernalia of the trade are stowed in the barn for winter. That is because waterfowlers, duck and goose hunters, never stop watching the sky and sniffing the air, looking, looking, looking. They are, in their own…
Lamenting the loss of the bobwhite
Quail numbers hit hard in Ohio. And when we lost those cheerful sweet calls and the sight of coveys skedaddling along brushrows, we lost something special. It would be nice to have them back. The loss has been ours, and many of us do not even realize it.
Tundra swans overhead a sight, sound to behold
They often use parts of northern Ohio as “stopover” sites
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.
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…
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