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Steve Pollick: Sandhill cranes making their presence increasingly known in Ohio

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

Increasingly as you prowl around the wetlands of northern Ohio, your ears may pick up a cacophony of deep-warbling calls.
The ragged music inspires a made-up word, “rawking,” or as some folks call it, a “rolling bugle” call. It is a haunting, eerie echo from the distant past. Searching carefully, your eyes may catch sight of a small flock of big but slender gray birds – sandhill cranes – standing in a grain field or maybe setting wings to land in a marsh.

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Steve Pollick: Ohio needs a ballot issue to fund H2Ohio

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

Gov. Mike DeWine recently hinted at coming to the aid of his high-profile H2Ohio conservation program by floating a ballot issue for public bonds to finance it, this in the wake of the state legislature’s recent hatcheting of program funding.
It’s a good idea, one worth pursuing and supporting. H2Ohio is a critical, longterm program and the state’s lawmakers were wrong when they cut its biennial funding by some 40% over the next two years.

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Steve Pollick: Backyard archery range about to get real busy

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

Hard to believe that it’s “that time” again. Time for old-fashioned archers to get tuned up for deer hunting season.
We are the holdovers, traditionalists, who shoot barebows – longbows, recurves, no sights. We are not elitists, but maybe throwbacks. But we’re stubborn about using our more primitive gear, gear that relies on muscle memory, hand-eye coordination, and practice, practice, practice.

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Steve Pollick: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge intern offers hope for future

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio /

Just about the time you start worrying about the future of sportfishing in America, what with concerns about the aging of the angling population, along comes someone like Alex Marshall and an organization like Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.
Alex – Alexandra Leora Marshall – is 24, a native of rural central and northwest Indiana, and a budding fisheries biologist.

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Steve Pollick: Working on, then handing down an old firearm that has long been in the family

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

Every hunting and shooting family should have a legacy rifle, an arm treasured not for its market value but for its time in service across generations.
My family has such a rifle. It is a J.C. Higgins Model 103.16, a magazine-fed bolt-action .22 rifle, and it has been shot and carried and cared for by four generations of Pollicks. For us, it is priceless.

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Steve Pollick: Time for Ohio’s hunters to act like deer managers, not just big buck hunters

1 Comment / Discussions, Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

It is high time that Ohio’s deer hunting community return to being the “Buckeye Doe-Nation.”
Our state’s much heralded deer herd is breeding and eating itself out of house and home, reaching record numbers, and without concerted action and imaginative management tactics the lid will blow off what is becoming a can of worms. This is about the repeated failure annually to kill enough antlerless deer.

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Steve Pollick: A first report from Ohio’s berry-picking season

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

Dear Maddy, Charlie, Aidan, and Zachary,
Grampa Frogs wanted to write you a little report on the first berry picking expedition in Froggy Bottom, since you could not be here this year. I was out today, mostly scouting for patches of berries and picking the first few ripe ones. I kept an eye out for berry patches when I re-mowed walking trails a couple of weeks ago. I am sending a photograph of today’s pickings – just a couple of big Grampa-handfuls to show for it.

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Steve Pollick: Inland Fish Ohio Day all about partnerships

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio /

Fishing in a way is like football in that it takes a whole “team” to play the game and make it happen.
Yes, a winning team can be built around a star or two. But it takes all the players, even the back-benchers, to capture a league crown. So it is with fishing in Ohio. It takes a village full of angling opportunities and providers to keep fishermen happy.

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Lawsuit puts Ohio hog hunting bill on hold

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

A new Ohio law that would ban the importation and hunting of feral swine and end the practice of garbage feeding has been put on hold as a lawsuit by an Adams County hunting preserve works its way through the courts.
Passed overwhelmingly by the state legislature last fall and signed into law by Gov. DeWine just before Christmas, the law is labeled House Bill 503. It was championed by the 2,500-member Ohio Pork Council as a remedy to serious disease risks to the state’s domestic swine herd.

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