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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Drought maps easy to search. 2023 didn't really didn't have much in the way of drought.
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Just reading a study that that suggests that with our warmer weather the deer that survived EHD and still infected, the new adult midges that popup can continue the cycle of transmission by biting infected deer and keep spreading it. It appears the virus doesn't directly pass from adult midges...
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    There's other factors that come into play , especially timing. This year happened to be very wet around prime time for the midge's breeding season then the drought hit at the right time to drive deer to water.
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Got a have mud to make midges. Not every water way will make mud. Lot of rocky creek, ponds and lakes around here.
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    This is the worst ehd outbreak that I can remember. I'm just outside the worst of it but my area has been largely spared, just now getting a few kills reported. Southern part of my county been hit hard the last few outbreaks but nowhere near what Athens and meigs are seeing now.
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Really what can be done about EHD other than reducing bag limits/closing seasons? I don't think there's any pesticides available that would selectively kill the bugs responsible for EHD. Mass innoculatiion isnt possible. Maybe you could with feeders add some kind of supplement that would boost...
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Sure. But not all the same ways. Lot of hunters i see in places I hunt need ultra remedial deer hunting classes
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Are they though? The serious people are still serious. But the more casual guys are more casual.
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    Ohio Bobcats

    There's more bobcats in one particular county than what some of these nuts are trying to say there are in the entire state
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    I've said for a long time you have to go down to the township level if you want to micromanage things. Beyond that it's up to the landowners.
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    Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

    Problem is by law they have to give 65 days of comment before they can do anything. Which puts the earliest they can close the season using yesterdays date, mid November. If they try to close it earlier than than that, any group that sues to reopen the season wll likely win. I don't think the...
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    Hunting season 2025

    Got 2 with the 20 gauge today. Pawpaw crop doesn't look good.
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    Conceal Carry Insurance

    condolences. terrible group. magazine was nice. they dont make it easy to cancel.
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    All year or seasonal for coyotes?

    Dogs like to roll in some really foul stuff. A few times returning home smelling like death or skunk might keep the dogs tied up...
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    All year or seasonal for coyotes?

    Why torture yourself and hunt during the worse conditions to do so? During the fur season is the prime time despite what the turkey/deer guys believe.