
Steve Pollick: Is butterfly decline a sign of larger issue?
Something’s awry in the prairie patch in my area of Ohio — Froggy Bottom — and a lot of other prairies this summer, and it’s not the plants. Butterflies are missing in action and that

Something’s awry in the prairie patch in my area of Ohio — Froggy Bottom — and a lot of other prairies this summer, and it’s not the plants. Butterflies are missing in action and that

It was a promising mid-August morning, weather-wise, on western Lake Erie and fishing buddy Steve Hathaway and I decided go perch hunting.
Yes, perch “hunting,” not fishing. That was because despite ideal moderate weather

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 28, 2026 edition of Ohio Outdoor News.

It’s well known by now that thousands of southeast Ohio whitetails succumbed to epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) last summer.
The epidemic was so bad, in fact, that it caused the ODNR Division of Wildlife

Groups send letter to USFWS on wetland easement rules

When the calendar turns to August, we typically start shifting our attention somewhat to the upcoming fall deer season.
We have had plenty of whitetail coverage in recent issues of Outdoor News. And, don’t miss

If your home was burned down, were you harmed? The answer is, of course, yes.
Left or right, red or blue, there are some things we can all agree are simply true. Yet the

The trouble with fracking here in Ohio is that it is as much a political problem as it is an environmental one, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
Witness the recent “fine tuning”

The trail cams have been sending a loud and clear message lately on Pollick Clan hunting grounds: Get ready!
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