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Ohio Insider: Fracking in Ohio state parks is a terrible idea
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, even if no one is listening: Fracking in Ohio’s state parks is a bad, terrible idea.
At issue is a recent decision by the Ohio

Commentary: Do not place garbage or waste on or under the ice this winter fishing season; it’s the law in Minnesota
Effective July 1, 2023, it’s illegal to place garbage and human/other waste on or under the ice of state waters in Minnesota.
Garbage, rubbish, cigarette filters, debris from fireworks, offal, the body of a

Commentary: Support changes to the Clean Water Bill
To protect clean water in the wake of weakened protections triggered by the Supreme Court’s Sackett v EPA decision, the Izaak Walton League has endorsed H.R. 5983, the Clean Water Act of 2023, which was

Opening day of Ohio deer season was a boom for many gun hunters
While a lot of hunters – more than 19,000 of them – bagged their bucks and does on Ohio’s firearms deer-hunting opener Nov. 27, bunches more did not.
And though Ohio Outdoor News has

Pennsylvania deer hunting offers a range of experiences
It wasn’t for a lack of invested effort, but the first three days of firearms deer season didn’t generate any filled tag revenue for this Pennsylvania hunter. That said, I did profit from a mixed

Bill proposed in Pennsylvania allowing license holders to select fish, game commissioners politics in its truest form
State representative Dave Maloney introduced legislation that would allow agency license buyers to nominate and vote for commissioner candidates.
At present, commissioners for both the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat

Commentary: Things are changing with waterfowl on Wisconsin waters of the Mississippi
This is in reply to Mark Kakatsch’s Oct. 20 Commentary stating that changing the start of the regular Canada goose season on the Mississippi River to begin on Sept. 16 instead of with the start

Outdoor Insights: What’s in a name when it comes to birds?
This newspaper printed a story last week about the American Ornithological Society’s plan to rename 80 species of North American birds named after people. We’re talking feathered friends like the Wilson’s phalarope, the Cooper’s hawk,

Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Archery season taking an early toll on whitetails?
Reader-submitted letters to the editor printed in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.