Ohio DNR adds four more officers
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) has four more natural resources officers patrolling state parks, nature preserves, and forests. The group was sworn in on March 14 by ODNR Director Mary Mertz.
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) has four more natural resources officers patrolling state parks, nature preserves, and forests. The group was sworn in on March 14 by ODNR Director Mary Mertz.

Two tournament fishermen who were facing felony cheating charges after they were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail (LEWT) Championship in September of 2022 pleaded guilty in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Monday,

The 10.15-pound smallmouth bass caught in the Ontario, Canada, waters of Lake Erie in November 2022 was a 16-year-old female, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The record fish is the only

“We started with seven kids and one bow,” remembered Jim Moyer. “Our target was a cardboard box on a hillside behind the school.”
Moyer, the coach for the New Lexington Archery team in Ohio,

State wildlife officers continue to investigate how a bighead carp got into a small lake at a municipal park in Xenia, Ohio.
Bighead carp are a species of invasive Asian carp. It is illegal

The Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife will release 84,000 rainbow trout in 88 lakes and ponds beginning Thursday, March 16. The DOW will stock smaller waters with hopes fish are caught and kept.

Outdoor-related news items from around the state of Ohio published in the March 17, 2023 edition of Ohio Outdoor News.

Wildlife Forever’s Clean Drain Dry Initiative is a nationwide effort to prevent invasive species. The program has a particular interest in Ohio.

Licenses can be purchased at wildohio.gov, on the HuntFish OH mobile app, or at participating agents statewide.
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