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Commentary: Big public land purchase deserves support from Ohioans
How many times have we heard fellow hunters complain about the lack of public hunting land in Ohio?
It’s a legitimate complaint. Ohio owns one of the fewest number of acres of land for

Ohio Mixed Bag: 40 more Ohio deer test positive for CWD
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife confirmed that 40 white-tailed deer shot during the 2025-26 hunting season tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).

Ohio Insider: The reason behind proposed archery ban during fall turkey season
I have received a handful of letters to the editor questioning the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife’s proposal to eliminate archery hunting during the fall turkey season.
So, to get some more perspective on

Early season turkey take shows numbers are up in Ohio
Ohio’s hunters enjoyed a shotgun start to the state’s wild turkey hunting season.
That detail applied to both Ohio’s youth – who enjoyed their own season – along with participants in the general season

New Pennsylvania Game Commission office will aid landowners looking to manage for wildlife
The Landowner Resource Office was created to consolidate the Ag Tag and Deer Management Assistance Program, along with enhance existing programs such as the Certified Hunter Program – which has transitioned from a regional pilot

Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: PF&BC helps Coast Guard at NFL Draft
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission assisted the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in enforcing a security zone on local waterways during the National Football League Draft April 23-25 to ensure public safety, safeguard

Pennsylvania expected to remove conservation order season for light geese in spring ’27
In 1999, when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued its Light Geese Conservation Order – which allows a special season to harvest more of the overabundant white birds – snow geese populations had grown

Fighting hybrid cattails with fire proves tough, underscoring the need for expertise
This is not a story of a successful habitat restoration. Instead, this is a chronicle of a less-than-totally-successful operation in which, nevertheless, lessons were learned.
In the middle of Crow Wing County, Minn., land

Commentary: Pennsylvania’s Saturday deer openers boost early pressure, reduce hunter success
I decided to research the Saturday vs. Monday deer season opener after seeing the paltry number of campers at Parker Dam State Park this past rifle season and wondering if the change in human behavior