Ohio Conservation Federation

Great Lakes Invasive Species

The State-Up-North restores $8M pledge to stop Asian Carp!

DID YOU SEE THIS!?! This is an enormous deal that that State-Up-North has committed to. Especially given the financial impacts they and every other state is facing during this horrible pandemic. You don't have to like…

Matt MisickaSeptember 3, 2020

Conservation Programs Habitat

It’s Time Again for a Civilian Conservation Corps

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

Congressional Support Public Lands

The Great American Outdoors Act is a Victory for Ohio

Landmark Legislation Protects Public Lands and Expands Recreation Opportunities for Decades to Come The Great American Outdoors Act, which was officially signed into law at a White House ceremony today, is the most significant conservation legislation…

Matt MisickaAugust 4, 2020

Health

Be TICK Smart

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

Congressional Support Endangered Species Habitat Trapping

The American Burying Beetle and the ESA

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

Conservation Programs Great Lakes Water Quality

OCF Joins OACI

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

Habitat Hunting Sporting Dogs

OCF Welcomes Newest Member

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

Water Quality

H2Ohio Initiative

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

Great Lakes Invasive Species