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Steve Pollick: Coyote searches for late-night snack in Froggy Bottom

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

Dead of winter, mid-January. Deep-freeze, zero-degrees, frozen land. No surprise. 
Birds almost frantically are mobbing the feeders in the cold, their numbers now including bullying flocks of starlings and grackles, and hordes of pesky, aggressive English (house) sparrows along with the usual more colorful winter-bird suspects. And then, on the trail-cam at 2 a.m., a little unexpected drama: One Wile E. Coyote rousts a white-tailed deer off one of my mineral licks.

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Steve Pollick: Northwest Ohio offers plenty of options to keep winter bird watchers busy

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio /

The wood duck box on my pond in Froggy Bottom has an unexpected return resident this fall – a gray screech owl.
The little owl’s appearance was welcome, for I think it may be the same one “Whoo” spent the winter here a year ago. Over the 40-plus years that the box has perched at the southwest corner of the pond, down by the creek, awaiting a guest. Alas, it has been had been a forlorn, empty sentinel.

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Tundra swans make their annual appearance in northwest Ohio

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

The big white birds are back in “town.” Town being the marshlands and harvested cornfields along western Lake Erie.
These would be tundra swans, by the hundreds, down from Arctic summer nesting grounds some 2,500 to 3,000 miles to the north. The northwest Ohio locale is a major migratory stopover point for these graceful birds as they make their way to traditional wintering grounds around Chesapeake Bay after a summer nesting season in the Arctic of Alaska and Canada.

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Time to stop spread of grass carp is now in Ohio’s Sandusky River

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

A new federal/state fisheries plan is afoot to further combat the threat of grass carp in the Sandusky River watershed of northwest Ohio and it aims to inhibit the spawning of these destructive, vegetation-devouring behemoths, which can grow as big as trophy king salmon – up to 40 pounds.

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Public can help protect Ohio’s Big, Little Darbies; comment period open until Nov. 17 on protection amendment

Blogs, Featured, Ohio, Opinion /

If you care about clean water and scenic, biologically rich streams, now is your chance to get on board a drive to encourage the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to declare the Big Darby and Little Darby watershed in west central Ohio as “Outstanding National Resource Waters (ONRW).”
The agency has declared a public comment period until Nov. 17 in its consideration of ONRW designation – the highest protection under the federal Clean Water Act – for these gorgeous, biologically diverse, fish- and wildlife-rich streams in west-central Ohio.

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Creating a new rifleman with the M-1 Garand

Featured, Ohio, Opinion /

“In my opinion, the M-1 Rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
— Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr.
The revered and feared U.S. Army tank commander wrote that oft-repeated statement in the final months of World War II, on Jan. 26, 1945, in an official letter to Major General Levin H. Campbell, Jr., who was the War Department’s Chief of Ordnance. Patton went on to praise the effectiveness of other U.S. armaments as well, but the words about the M-1 Garand rifle stood out.

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Ohio DNR Conservation Hall of Fame inductees have two approaches, same passion for the land

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

Denis Case and Paul Knoop, Jr., have a lesson to teach those of us who, like them, love and care about The Land, the land in its collective sense – from soil, water, and air to plants and animals and everything in between.
Don’t give up. Case and Knoop recently were among members of the 2023 class of inductees to the Conservation Hall of Fame of the Ohio DNR, and after distinguished careers both “retired” to pursue still more projects under the big tent labeled Conservation.

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Steve Pollick’s trip back to barebow has been a pleasant one after more than a year away

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

After more than a year’s pause, the wood riser of a lightweight recurve bow in my curled left hand felt good, as did the muscle tension associated with drawing an arrow.
After a dozen arrows of “warm-up,” just trying to rekindle muscle memory and just keeping fired arrows on a target butt, I bore down and focused. I managed to put all six arrows from my quiver into a deer’s kill-zone from 20 yards. Wow. After spending months wondering whether I ever would be able to return to this beloved skill, I was elated.

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Maumee River project in Ohio teems with possibilities

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

A golden opportunity – well, at least a tantalizing possibility – exists to open up perhaps 30 more miles of the Maumee River to downstream fisheries at the Grand Rapids-Providence dams through a project to conserve Howard Island there.
The island, which covers nine acres and looks somewhat like the outline of an old battleship when seen from the air, sits about 32 miles from Lake Erie and anchors the “wings” of two low-head dams that reach out from the opposite-bank villages of Grand Rapids and Providence. The property was purchased in the past year by the Perrysburg-based Black Swamp Conservancy (BSC) for about $75,000 in state-furnished H2Ohio funds.

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