
Smallmouth bass, walleyes OK at Bresler Reservoir in Ohio’s Allen County
Lima, Ohio — Bresler Reservoir is one of the handful of manmade lakes in northwest Ohio that has walleyes stocked on an annual basis.

Lima, Ohio — Bresler Reservoir is one of the handful of manmade lakes in northwest Ohio that has walleyes stocked on an annual basis.

As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio Initiative, the Ohio DNR (ODNR) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony recently to celebrate the completion of a wetland project at Funk-DeWald Nature Preserve. The preserve, managed by Heidelberg University,
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Ohio published in the July 3, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.

Ohio cuffs and collars are field reports from the Division of Wildlife. These reports are from the July 3, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.

While black bears are becoming a more common sight in Ohio these days, the big male captured and collared in this northeast Ohio county in mid-June is a rarity.
Most adult male black bears

Whitetails Unlimited recently granted $33,593 to the Champaign County Outdoor Heritage Chapter located in Champaign County, Ohio.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 3, 2026 edition of Ohio Outdoor News.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in an additional 41 deer this past hunting season in Ohio, bringing the total since the first finding in 2020 to 115.
That information comes from ODNR Division

The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is moving forward with plans to open a unit of the Wayne National Forest in southeast Ohio to leasing by oil and gas companies.
The BLM proposes
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