Ticks thriving after mild winter
Associated Press
May 16, 2023
In Connecticut, ticks are showing up in greater numbers this year, according to Goudarz Molaei, a tick expert for the state.
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Ohio’s Women Sharing the Outdoors celebrates with event
Celeste Baumgartner
May 12, 2023
Women Sharing the Outdoors (WSO), a committee of the Mt. Healthy Izaak Walton League of America chapter, partnered with the Ohio DNR (ODNR) to teach women in a friendly, non-competitive setting, about their kind of
Tournament anglers who cheated in Lake Erie walleye championship sentenced to jail time
Maggie Kelch
May 11, 2023
Two tournament fishermen who pleaded guilty to felony cheating charges after they were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) Championship in September of 2022 are headed to jail.
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Ohio’s Wengerd, 33, going into trapshooting Hall of Fame
Maggie Kelch
May 11, 2023
J. Michael Wengerd, of Dundee, may be only 33 years old, but he has been breaking clay targets and earning top shooting honors for more than 20 years. Wengerd was a hunter when he was
Money directed toward Ohio’s Mentor Harbor/Lagoons
Jeff Frischkorn
May 10, 2023
After a century of being battered by Lake Erie waves and erosion, the famed Mentor Harbor/Lagoons has a “white knight” riding to its rescue.
In mid-March, Ohio General Assembly members state Rep. Jamie Callender,
VHS confirmed in East Harbor fish kill on Lake Erie
John Hageman
May 9, 2023
On April 14, as a group of fishermen motored through the East Harbor channel into Lake Erie en route to some walleye fishing around the islands, scores of large Gizzard shad were seen floating on
Three Ohio Outdoor News contributors earn writing honors
Staff Report
May 9, 2023
Three writers who contribute to Ohio Outdoor News took home awards at the Outdoor Writers of Ohio (OWO) annual conference in Delaware County on April 15.
News writing was a particularly solid portion of the
Ginseng cases provide additional money to Ohio Division of Wildlife general funding
DNR Report
May 9, 2023
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife recently auctioned off $51,542 of ginseng and yellow root that was forfeited from illegal possession cases. That total came from 59.7 pounds of ginseng and 3.1 pounds of
Ohio Mixed Bag: Kentuckians now required to buy license to hunt, fish own small properties
Staff Report
May 9, 2023
A provision included in Kentucky Senate Bill 241, which goes into effect immediately, now requires Kentuckians to have a permit to fish or hunt on their own property, if the property is less than five
