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Gun harvest jumps 13,000 over 2007

DNR Staff Reports Columbus – Buoyed by an opening day harvest that was nearly 70 percent better than last year, Ohio hunters bagged 116,798 during the recently completed gun week. In 2007, hunters killed a

Study links lead in blood to consumption of wild game

Bismarck, N.D. – North Dakota health officials are recommending that pregnant women and young children avoid eating meat from wild game killed with lead bullets. The recommendation is based on a study released last week

New law makes poached big buck worth $13,000

Columbus – From trumpeter swans to trophy bucks, poachers are bagging hefty court-ordered restitution as a result of tougher sanctions approved by the Ohio legislature and being enforced since March 4. Two hunters arrested for

Hunter access survey shows work is needed

Columbus – A small sample of southeast and southwest Ohio farmers said they continue to experience problems related to deer damage, but the majority of those same farmers said they weren’t interested in a formal

Trumpeters taking a hit along Lake Erie

Oak Harbor, Ohio – One of the staples of the early morning talks that Pat Baranowski gives to waterfowl hunters at Magee Marsh is proper bird identification. “No skybusting, and please don’t shoot a swan,”

Rifle-shot buck gets charges in two states

DNR, Staff Reports Ashland, Ohio – A West Salem man shot a trophy buck this fall in Ohio, transported it to West Virginia where he checked it in as an archery kill, and then learned

Early muzzleloader take doubles from 2007 hunt

DNR Report Athens, Ohio – Muzzleloader hunters took 568 deer during the weeklong, October early muzzleloader deer hunt, according to the DNR Division of Wildlife. Hunters took 315 deer at Salt Fork Wildlife Area, 162

Coal dock, new ramp at odds on Ohio River

Racine, Ohio – Plans by a subsidiary of Gatling Ohio to build a coal loading dock and barge mooring on the Ohio River in Meigs County have run headlong into opposition from the DNR Division

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