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Is the North American Model of Conservation still valid?
To remain relevant, there is a growing consensus that NAMWC needs to adapt. Effective management in the 21st Century will require collaborative work among fish and wildlife agencies, public health professionals, farmers, ecologists, private landowners,

Ohio Outdoor News Letters to the Editor: State’s turkey hunting still a concern after fall season
Reader-submitted letters to the editor from Ohio Outdoor News.

Ohio Insider: Numbers show a great deer season for many Ohio hunters
This will certainly be the first deer season in a decade with a total harvest topping 200,000.

Devil is in the details on ‘green energy’ bill in Ohio
One has to read Gov. Mike DeWine’s statement on the ‘green energy’ bill carefully to parse out the true meaning of it, Pollick writes.

Pennsylvania Outdoor News Letters to the Editor: Deer on hunters’ minds
Reader-submitted letters to the editor from Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

Notes off a soiled cuff: A bounty program on smallmouth bass?
A bill was recently introduced in the Oregon Legislature that would authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife there to implement a program in which the agency would pay anglers $5 for every smallmouth bass

What does it mean to be a “sportsman” in today’s outdoors?
Fewer voices are calling for “sportsmanlike” behavior these days – whatever, exactly, it means. There’s less emphasis on how to “be” outdoors, and more stress on results – the biggest fish, the greatest score, the

Pennsylvania’s new antlerless system seems pretty simple
My belief that the new system will work, however, was made stronger when I saw the draft proposal on the Jan. 28 board meeting agenda outlining how the process is going to work. It is

Snow geese filling fields early in Pennsylvania
Much like last year, the snow geese migration south has stalled in southeastern Pennsylvania As I noted in a blog last year at this time, snow geese have shown up locally in great numbers much