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.
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.
Steve Pollick: A first report from Ohio’s berry-picking season Read More »
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.
Steve Pollick: Inland Fish Ohio Day all about partnerships Read More »
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.
Lawsuit puts Ohio hog hunting bill on hold Read More »
Watching young bald eagles fledge is like being a father overseeing his kid’s first attempt to ride a bicycle, tottering training wheels and all.
I have been a volunteer eagle-nest watcher weekly since early February for a handful of nests monitored by the Sandusky County Park District in Ohio. Now at the end of May is when five eaglets in three of my nests have grown, precociously, to adult size. They still have four years of growing pains and perils to navigate before mating and raising young themselves, but it all starts with the first flight off the nest.
Steve Pollick: Bald eagle fledglings ready to take flight Read More »
For a week in early April, Ohio’s Sandusky River had hardly lived up to its designation as “state scenic,” boiling brown and angry and flooding bankside lowlands.
Four and a quarter inches of rain or more had turned a lovely winding stream into a raging torrent. Much the same could be said for the Sandusky’s big cousin, the Maumee River, about 35 miles to the west and the largest river and watershed by far on the entire Great Lakes.
Steve Pollick: H2Ohio in danger of being flushed down drain Read More »
Prairie fires are serious business.
All you have to do to understand that statement is volunteer to tote and deploy a drip-torch – a heavy metal canister with a thick handle and curly-Q spout, filled with a 60/40 mix of diesel fuel and gasoline. But first be sure to don a Nomex protective suit, a fire-resistant balaclava, a cumbersome, but necessary, helmet with Plexiglas face-shield, and heavy leather boots and gloves. Then you also may shoulder a Fire-Pump – a five-gallon metal canister with shoulder and chest straps and a brass hand-pump on a red hose, all weighing about 42 pounds when topped off with water.
Steve Pollick: A rookie’s first prairie burn is a learning experience that impresses Read More »
Ah, April! The perfect time to get ready for…fall deer hunting.
What, no wild turkey? Of course wild turkey. But that hunting season still is a couple-three weeks away, at this writing, for Ohio’s large southern zone. My point is, you can get a lot done right now on a work weekend to improve and maintain your autumn deer hunting grounds.
Steve Pollick: Turkeys are great, but there’s more reasons to be in the woods right now Read More »
The sweeping cuts to federal natural resource employees has succeeded in sewing chaos and confusion, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty among federal public lands and outdoors-related agencies, offices, programs, and more with their stream of staffing and other cuts and edicts in recent weeks.
Ohio outdoors folks will see the results here as the weeks and months unfold. But trying to swallow it all in one gulp is like trying to drink from a fire hose.
Steve Pollick: Fed layoffs pose a lot of questions for Ohio’s outdoors Read More »
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