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By Jim Morris, Staff Writer 1:39 AM Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Ohio’s upland game hunting season begins Friday, Nov. 6. Hunters will be going after ring-necked pheasant, cottontail rabbit and bobwhite quail.

“The state’s ring-necked pheasant population has been stable for the last several years, and this year should show some good opportunities for sportsmen,” said Nathan Stricker, project leader with the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s Olentangy Wildlife Research Station.

He pointed out that, although 2009 started with a cool, wet spring, mild summer temperatures and moderate rainfall provided for good conditions during the nesting season.

Here are this year’s season dates:

• Cottontail rabbit hunting continues through Feb. 28.

• Ring-necked pheasant hunting is open through Jan. 10.

• Quail season ends Nov. 29 and is only open in 16 southwest and southern Ohio counties, including Montgomery, Preble, Butler, Warren, Clinton, Clermont, Brown and Adams.

• Cottontail and pheasant seasons are closed during the statewide 2009 deer-gun hunting season, Nov. 30 through Dec. 6, as well as the extra weekend of deer-gun hunting Dec. 19-20.

For more information, visit wildohio.com.

Short shots

Crappie champs: The team of Mike Shroyer of Greenville and Mark Puthoff of Coldwater won the Buckeye Crappie Challenge 2009 Classic at Salt Fork Lake on Oct. 17. They won the first-place purse of $3,000 for an eight-crappie bag of 7.17 pounds.

The team of Mike Walters of West Milton and Rick Solomon of Piqua came in second, winning $1,500.

Forest preserved: The state of Ohio has reached an agreement to purchase the largest remaining privately owned forest in the state, 16,000 acres of Ohio’s Appalachian Forest region, including the Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest.

Located about 75 miles southeast of Columbus, the forest is inhabited by a variety of animals, including bobcats, black bear and the highest recorded densities of cerulean warblers.

More than 70 percent of the $15.1 million purchase will be paid for with federal and private funds. For more information, visit ohiodnr.com.

Bird talk: A free talk about birds and climate change by Gregory Butcher of the National Audubon Society will be held on Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Marie S. Aull Education Center, 1000 Aullwood Road. For information, call (937) 890-7360.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2409 or jmorris@DaytonDail

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the ODNR released something else into the wild and im not sure what it is,maybe yall can help?
it stands about 7 foot tall,it has brown fur and it normaly runs after you and tries to hump ya.

is there a gay bigfoot?

BFhunter
3:28 PM, 11/7/2009

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There are no pheasants or bobwhite quail in Clark County. Unless ODNR has released some in the last few weeks.

flipper
9:44 AM, 11/3/2009

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