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Lou Yuhasz

Ohio’s Popular Deer Gun Season Opens Nov. 28th

Image via Wikipedia COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio’s popular deer-gun season opens statewide on Monday, November 28, offering hunters a full week to harvest a whitetail. The upcoming season will again include an extra weekend of gun hunting on December 17-18, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. Deer can be hunted with a legal muzzleloader, handgun or shotgun [...]

Ohio Furbearer Hunting and Trapping Seasons

Image via Wikipedia COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio hunters and trappers preparing to pursue furbearers will find good populations of these animals during the 2011-2012 season. The season begins for most furbearing species on November 10, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. “Food sources and habitat conditions for furbearers remain [...]

Ohio Waterfowl Hunting Seasons Sneaking Up Fast

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio hunters should have good opportunities to take some of the most popular species of waterfowl, based on the findings of biologists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The spring pond index for the prairie pothole region of North America (Kansas to central Saskatchewan) and breeding duck surveys indicate a better than [...]

Ohio Fall Colors Near Peak

COLUMBUS, OH – Near peak conditions are becoming evident across the northern part of Ohio while the rest of the Buckeye State is still seeing predominantly green hues, according to Fall Color Forester Casey Burdick with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). “Honey locusts and black walnuts are now adding yellows to the mix [...]

Ohio Fall Turkey Season: Might be a Bad Year

COLUMBUS, OH – Fall wild turkey hunting opens in 48 Ohio counties on Saturday, October 8, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The season continues through Sunday, November 27. “Record rainfall and regional flooding during the nesting season negatively affected wild turkey production this year,” said Wildlife Biologist Mike Reynolds. [...]