Steve Pollick
It takes you and me to introduce youth to the outdoors
Blogger shares on-the-water, in-the-woods bonding experience with grandkids.
Berry-picking a rite of passage
Parallels to patience in hunting learned, appreciated by blogger's grandsons.
Howard Marsh a true testament to wetland conservation
Toledo Metroparks restored 1,000 acres of Lake Erie coastland.
Sturgeon snagged above former Ballville dam is welcome news
If you tear it down they will come, to put a twist on a saying made popular by the Kevin Costner classic baseball film, “Field of Dreams.”
Be tick smart in the Ohio outdoors
Something – a biting insect for sure – had marched down my forearm and punched in a string of tiny bites. I never even noticed the minor “attack” until, overnight, a reddish-purplish blob about two inches long raised up on…
Clearing logjams from 'Froggy Bottom' all in a spring day’s work
A water-logged volleyball, a capped but empty old beer bottle, a couple beer and pop caps, assorted Styrofoam, a spent shotgun shell, and “tons” of twigs, sticks, branches, dead grass, heavy limbs and logs, soybean stubble and more – it…
Chance encounter with gobblers serves as a reminder
With opening day for turkeys coming soon, it's high time to start staking out hunting territory for the spring.
Take advantage of some super – and cheap – Ohio trout fishing
ODNR offers sessions for adults and youth.
Sight of buffleheads soothes on a cold winter’s night
A waterfowler’s season is never over, even when the trusty, weatherbeaten old shotgun is cleaned and racked and the bags of decoys and other paraphernalia of the trade are stowed in the barn for winter. That is because waterfowlers, duck…
Providing habitat for small game vitally important in winter
Author’s clan cleared brush to do just that recently
Lamenting the loss of the bobwhite
Quail numbers hit hard in Ohio. And when we lost those cheerful sweet calls and the sight of coveys skedaddling along brushrows, we lost something special. It would be nice to have them back. The loss has been ours, and many of us do not even realize it.
Tundra swans overhead a sight, sound to behold
They often use parts of northern Ohio as “stopover” sites
Winter bird feeding entertains, educates
Writer enjoys watching birds over the bead on the barrels of his double-barrel shotgun well enough, but also enjoys watching them at his feeding stations every winter day.
Be wary of ticks in the deer woods this season
It is a little thing, easily ignored, overlooked, or forgotten, but potentially with big consequences – a bite from an infected tick. And while disease-bearing ticks can be a problem year-round, deer hunters should be especially wary. We spend long…
Dead owl yet another tragic example of society’s overuse of potent chemicals
Insecticides, pesticides, and mouse poison rule the day.
Trail cam sighting stirs up memories of regal bucks of yesteryear
Author getting tuned up for Saturday’s bow opener in Ohio.
Butterfly phenomena in northern Ohio was a sight to behold
Storm pushed millions of butterflies into secluded, sequestered sites.
Summit Metro Parks letter spot-on about endangered species protection
Northeast Ohio organization takes on USFWS policies.
Teach kids hunting at the appropriate age
Very young kids have no business doing anything more than tagging along, not pulling triggers. They are too immature to understand what they are doing. Much responsibility comes with pulling the trigger.
About This Blog
Steve Pollick, an Ohio Outdoor News columnist since the paper’s inception in 2005, and retired staff member of The Blade newspaper in Toledo and its outdoors editor since 1982. His bylined stories and columns also have appeared in local, regional, state, and national magazines for more than 40 years.
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