Butterfly phenomena in northern Ohio was a sight to behold
Storm pushed millions of butterflies into secluded, sequestered sites.
Steve Pollick
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.
Patience, persistence and other life lessons learned picking berries
Writer's brood learns their lessons well.
Grass carp do their job, sometimes too well
Lake Erie tributaries have them but they are different from their sterile cousins.
This turkey season, keep an eye out for ‘other’ birds, too
Ohio is a major migratory corridor for many species.
Celebrating a fine eco-Samaritan, and others like him
Mindless wastefulness uglies America’s roadsides.
Ohio DNR errs in allowing dogs to roam beaches
The official announcement curiously was carefully crafted to avoid explaining why Fido should be allowed to run free, contrary to a long-standing rule, on parks’ beaches through May 18. It simply told Ohioans to go for it.
The Old Man grows fond of his trail camera
OK, OK, true confession: I am a grumpy old man, slow to embrace the latest and greatest in outdoors gear and technology. But I am starting to grow fond of a trail camera. My kids, all-in in the Great Technology…
Awarded officer went out of his way to make things good
Sometimes, it’s personal. So I am especially pleased that Ohio Wildlife Investigator Brian Bury, assigned to the Lake Erie Unit, has been name Wildlife Officer of the Year by Wildlife Officer Lodge 143, of the Fraternal Order of Police of…
Back to the Wild: A snowy owl's journey
Ohio rehab center nurses bird back to health, culminating with an almost religious experience that was its return to the wild.
Deer gun season is in the sights in Ohio
Make sure your weapon is up to speed before you get into the field this season.
Make your opinion known on Mohican timbering
The North Central Ohio Land Conservancy and its legion of supporters are circulating a petition urging Gov. John Kasich and Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof (R-Medina) to protect the 4,525-acre Mohican Memorial State Forest in Ashland County from timbering and…
A painful lesson in getting bow ready for the season
Traditional arrow-strings will stretch with use, so you need to pay attention to fistmele, or brace-height, on your bow. And I need to follow my own advice.
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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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