Outdoor Steward: 5 top implements for managing your property
Christopher Jennings
February 21, 2023
Tools for food-plot building and other hobby farm chores.
Hunting
A quick chat with Katie McKalip of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
Dean Bortz
February 16, 2023
Few people have both feet planted in the natural resources public policy arena like Katie McKalip, of Missoula, Mont. During the past 16 years, she’s worked for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (2007-2015), and since
A quick chat with Field & Stream’s David E. Petzal
Tim Lesmeister
February 16, 2023
If I made a mistake, the whole office knew about it, so I stopped making mistakes. I didn’t enjoy this, but I had the sense to realize that I was getting an education you could
Ohio Wildlife Council member calls for hunting suspension due to decline of ruffed grouse
Jane Beathard
February 16, 2023
Ohio’s ruffed grouse continue to decline, and a quick rebound is unlikely with habitat issues at the forefront of the birds’ decline.
Step-by-step instructions for building your own wood duck houses
Staff Report
February 15, 2023
Editor’s Note: The Wood Duck Society and the staff at Outdoor News agree that mounting wood duck houses on trees creates an unnecessary predation hazard for the birds.
Young hunter’s Ohio 6-point may be world record-breaker
Mike Moore
February 15, 2023
It wasn’t the buck David Yoder was chasing last fall, but the 6-point buck he ended up shooting might just make the record books.
Yoder’s long-tined 3×3 was officially scored by Buckmasters at 145
Listen to what turkeys are saying to become a better hunter
Gene Kroupa
February 13, 2023
Turkey hunters are pretty good at talking like a turkey, but not so much at listening. This trait can lead to false hopes and unfilled tags when keen listening could be the key to dropping
Report finds huge majority of deer are taken on private land in Ohio, many states
Mike Moore
February 11, 2023
“Most of America’s 600 million acres of public land are in the West, yet proportionally few hunters are residents of those states,” said NDA Chief Conservation Officer Kip Adams, one of the report’s authors. “Most
Ohio deer hunters harvest state’s ninth most whitetails since 1900
Jeff Frischkorn
February 10, 2023
In all, preliminary figures show that Ohio’s archery, firearms and muzzleloading hunters killed 210,977 animals. The last time the 200,000 total deer kill ceiling was breached was in the 2012-2013 season when 218,910 deer were
