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Get to know Ohio’s Maumee and Sandusky rivers, waters that walleye anglers will soon flock to

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

This is a tale of two state scenic rivers in northwest Ohio, the Sandusky and the Maumee, both of which will be garnering lots of angler attention in the next three months because of their popular spring spawning runs from western Lake Erie, with the first run of walleyes and then of white bass.
The story revolves around what is happening because of a dam that is no longer there, on the Sandusky, and a “dam” that is there, but “not really there,” on the Maumee.

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Buzzards’ early return to Ohio a sign of an early spring?

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

Myth has it that turkey vultures return to Ohio when the state greens up. On the way home from town, just passing the old quarry, I could hardly believe my eyes – buzzards soaring! So soon, on Feb. 8!
In all my 50 years of watching these great soaring raptors – more properly known as turkey vultures – around Froggy Bottom environs, I have not seen them return for spring so early.

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Jim Abrams pens history of the Ohio Division of Wildlife

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

It is surprising to learn that the first woman to serve as an Ohio game warden, Rosetta Zimmerman, patrolled 25 miles a day on horseback in the state’s southwestern bailiwicks, a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver on her hip and a long knife on her belt – a century ago.
Or that fish reared in state hatcheries early on were delivered in a special railroad box car dubbed the “Buckeye Fish Car” and emblazoned with “Fish and Game” on each side. Those anecdotes and more are part and parcel of Jim Abrams’ new volume, A Crusade for Conservation.

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Steve Pollick: Much good came from a sad loss of a black walnut tree

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

Spooky Tree was a landmark in my little rural bailiwick, and it stood for decades at the edge of a neighbor’s farm field across the ditch on the township lane that winds back toward town.
It was a black walnut, shaped and sculpted by winds and storms over its time. Each fall, some neighbor would park on the berm and fill baskets with the richly aromatic walnuts and haul them off to their purposes.

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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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