Memories, crooner Dean Martin once insisted in a 1950s hit, are made of this. Now updated for 2022, here are some of the high notes and low notes for the Ohio outdoors:
The number of free-range deer confirmed to be infected with the lethal and environmentally persistent chronic wasting disease increased to more than a dozen in an area so far restricted to Wyandot and Marion counties. Hardin County was included in a CWD surveillance area where special deer hunting rules applied.
A Fremont teacher in November landed the largest smallmouth ever taken in the Great Lakes; the 10.15-pound giant won’t be an Ohio record because it was taken from Ontario waters of Lake Erie. Native Ohio brook trout, restricted to inhabiting a short stretch of stream in the headwaters of the Chagrin River, were downgraded from threatened to endangered. Two federally endangered species of freshwater mussel – snuffbox Epioblasma triquetra and rayed bean Villosa fabalis – were found in an upper section of the Olentangy River.