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Steve Pollick: Ohio DNR’s ups and downs in first 75 years

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

The “DNR.” To many hunters, anglers, and other outdoors folks in many states, Ohio included, that is shorthand for The Law.
But that is a pretty narrow, sometimes even adversarial, view. It is one that needs a little parsing, especially because the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, our “DNR,” is 75 years old this year. It has come a long way since 1949, morphed several times, and grown substantially from small beginnings.

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Steve Pollick: Witch hazel can teach us a true nature lesson

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

Once while sitting on bow stand in the autumn deer woods, in absolutely still conditions when every sound is sharp and magnified, I could hear what seemed to be a “pop” and then a small “plop.”
Intrigued, I temporarily abandoned my deer quest to investigate. I moved very slowly, lest the sound of my own movements mute the soft pops and plops. I came upon the source – a blooming yellow witch-hazel bush, “spitting” its seeds.

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Dragonflies and more detailed in new tome from Ohio writers

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

As I walk Froggy Bottom Creek sometime each May and into early June every spring, I find myself greeted by a succession of familiar “friends” – ebony jewelwing damselflies.
These dark-winged, iridescent members of the Odonata order of flying insects flutter softly along the creek, landing softly on vegetation, always just ahead. They flap ahead at every turn. But their seeming gentle, casual behavior is not indicative of their true nature.

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Steve Pollick: This year’s drought in Ohio provides wildlife lessons to ponder

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

If I were a minnow in Froggy Bottom Creek, out behind my house, I would be worried about losing life and limb.
The current drought, which has afflicted more than 90% of Ohio and all or parts of 87 of 88 counties at this writing, is drying up its aquatic home and the remaining “little fish” are being crowded into skinnier and skinnier water. I corralled a couple of them the other day and asked my friend and colleague, Fred Snyder, about them.

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Steve Pollick: Re-outfitting a Remington 721 with great results

Blogs, Featured, Ohio, Opinion /

A long quest for a satisfactory “old-fashioned” big-game utility rifle – a mostly go-anywhere, do-anything classic piece – at last is over for me.
The rifle is a Remington 721 bolt-action, chambered in .30/06. It is not quite the rifle it was when it came out of the fabled Ilion, N.Y., factory in 1948, its first year of production and the year I was born. But it’s close, and I think, better.

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Steve Pollick: Amendment to wild hog bill in Ohio should allow some hunting

Featured, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

Ohio hunters would lose their opportunity to shoot “Hogzilla” under legislation that has passed the Ohio House of Representatives and which awaits action in the Senate when sessions resume this fall. Maybe that’s OK.
The legislation, House Bill 503, drops the hammer on feral swine or wild boar in Ohio, and it whistled through the House 89-0 – this in a statehouse that cannot agree on lunch. That alone can raise eyebrows in wondering what’s up with that.

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Steve Pollick: A good day had on the quiet waters of Ohio’s Lake LaSuAn

Blogs, Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion /

Scratching the fishing itch sometimes means stepping outside the usual routine and trying something different, so fishing buddy Steve Hathaway and I did just that recently – with very satisfying results.
Our usual angling haunts lie in western Lake Erie, home of renowned walleye and yellow perch angling. But a spate of fickle winds and weather had kept us pinned down at the dock too long, so we decided to venture into the extreme northwest corner of Ohio to the Lake LaSuAn State Wildlife Area and its cluster of 13 lakes and ponds.

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Steve Pollick: An ode to two remarkable Ohio outdoorsmen in Mike Budzik and Roy Kroll

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

If there is someone who has poured more blood, sweat, and tears into fostering sportsmen’s interests in Ohio in the last 45 years than Mike Budzik, I have not met him, or her.

“Bud,” as so many thousands of Ohio outdoors men and women know him, would never tell you that. He is too humble, self-effacing, always giving others credit first and foremost. Bud recently was inducted into the 2024 class of the Conservation Hall of Fame of the Ohio DNR, the outfit for which he virtually has given his professional life.

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Steve Pollick: Red Ryder plinking a good tune-up for hunting season

Blogs, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

It all started out as a tongue-in-cheek Christmas gift to my brother, Dave, several holidays ago.
It was a “genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine-action air rifle with a compass in the stock.” Just like the fictional nine-year-old Ralphie dreamed about in the now-iconic holiday classic, “A Christmas Story.” Then it became some genuine adult shooting fun.

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