Outdoor News

21 hours ago | outdoornews.com | Jane Beathard

The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife recently debuted a new podcast – the Wild Ohio Podcast – with the goal of teaching a worldwide audience about what the agency does beyond regulating hunting and fishing in the state. “It will show the great stuff we do that people don’t know about,” said Jordan Phillips, an outdoor skills program administrator for the division.

1 day ago | outdoornews.com | Mike Moore

John Welch spent a good portion of the 1970s in Ohio chasing the elusive muskie. But it wasn’t until his son, Dan Welch, attended Ohio State University and started catching muskies at nearby Alum Creek Reservoir in the early 2000s that the elder Welch really got serious about the sport. This whole experience came to fruition on March 26 this year.

1 day ago | outdoornews.com | Jane Beathard

More than 62 acres of Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County is now open to possible fracking, following action by the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission in late March. Texas-based Encino Acquisition Partners submitted the only bid to extract minerals from beneath the parcel – located in Monroe Township, according to Theresa White, the commission’s chairman. That extraction will likely mean fracking – the controversial drilling method commonly used in Ohio.

2 days ago | outdoornews.com | Mike Moore

Cowan Lake, in a state park of the same name outside of Wilmington, is a scenic lake in southwest Ohio and the fishing is fairly good at Cowan. And, the angling should only get better in the ensuing years, said Kipp Brown, a fisheries biologist in Xenia for the ODNR Division of Wildlife. This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com. If you are already an OutdoorNews.com subscriber, you can log in here.

2 days ago | outdoornews.com | Jane Beathard

Ohio’s ginseng dealers will face slightly tighter regulations if the state wildlife council approves new rules for buying the valuable plant. The vote will come at the council’s April 30 meeting. Michele Horn, who oversees ginseng rule enforcement for the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife, said the dozen new rules are more of an update to existing regulations. That update is based on an administrative review of the “Operation Root of All Evil” undercover ginseng investigation.