As we deal with the economic impacts from the coronavirus pandemic, the influx of funds from the recently passed Great American Outdoors Act will help create jobs. With Ohio’s unemployment rate at 13.7% in May, one…
Matt MisickaAugust 21, 2020
About the time you will be reading this will be the one-year anniversary of me performing life saving emergency surgery on myself. Perhaps it wasn’t as much of an emergency as I originally thought, but it…
Matt MisickaApril 10, 2020
The American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) is a very unique species of insect that buries vertebrate carcasses on which to lay their eggs and exhibits parental care for their offspring. At night, a mated pair of…
Matt MisickaApril 6, 2020
On Friday, February 15th, the Ohio Conservation Federation joined the Ohio Agricultural Conservation Initiative and assumed the final seat on the OAC Council. The OACI is a collaborative effort of the agricultural, conservation, environmental and research…
Matt MisickaFebruary 19, 2020
At our annual meeting in Columbus on February 7th, the Ohio Conservation Federation welcomed its newest member, the Ohio Sportsmen & Sporting Dog Association. The OSSDA exists to advance conservation efforts for wildlife in the state…
Matt MisickaFebruary 18, 2020
Governor and team meets with statewide stakeholders On Monday morning April 1st, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Lt. Governor John Husted, the Governor’s Lake Erie Commission Director Joy Mulinex, and cabinet members Mary Mertz (Ohio Department of…
Matt MisickaApril 3, 2019
This story was originally published by and with the permission of the Gongwer News Service.Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz has tabbed a longtime agency staff member to head a division she's hoping to rejuvenate…
Matt MisickaApril 1, 2019
Many of the leaders of the Ohio Conservation Federation (OCF) headed to Medina and the Hill N Dale Club for a morning of pheasant hunting and a discussion of sportsmen conservation issues. Senator Rob Portman joined…
Matt MisickaApril 3, 2017
Last month, OCF VP Stefan Marsh and I traveled to Washington DC with a coalition of more than eighty sportsmen & women and conservationists (including colleagues from Ducks Unlimited, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Lake…
Matt MisickaMarch 30, 2017