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I'm sure it could be. It requires a law change though.

Any branch other than the DoW, that's part of the ODNR, is all funded by the taxpayer. So it doesn't really matter which branch that the money comes from as it can be moved around within the department. Wildlife Council doesn't have anything to do with the ODNR outaide of Division of Wildlife so...

The merger was done under the fake libertarian Kasich. The.Ohio State Trappers association, Sportsman's Alliance, Ohio Conservation Federation and a few others spent a lot of time and money to make sure that the DoW didn't get folded In with with Parks.

Coyotes were never that prevalent in my part of the state. Though I did have a group howling behind my house lady might. It inhad a thermal I probably could of popped one or two from my porch. Have been seeing more fox lately not a lot but at least I'm seeing them

Drought maps easy to search. 2023 didn't really didn't have much in the way of drought.

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...

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.

Got a have mud to make midges. Not every water way will make mud. Lot of rocky creek, ponds and lakes around here.

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.

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...

Sure. But not all the same ways. Lot of hunters i see in places I hunt need ultra remedial deer hunting classes

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

There's more bobcats in one particular county than what some of these nuts are trying to say there are in the entire state

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.

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...