ODNR offers special deer hunts
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is coordinating special deer hunts at 14 state nature preserves.
Preserve managers will handle hunting applications at the local level. Hunters must attend individual meetings if they are interested in particular hunts. During those events, hunters can enter the drawing by purchasing a single ticket for $5.
Hunters must possess a valid 2022-2023 hunting license to purchase tickets; names will be randomly drawn, and those selected will be assigned a specific time to hunt. For archery hunts, an orientation will be conducted immediately following the drawing.
Hunters will be permitted to hunt with a partner; however, the partner is not required to attend the drawing or orientation. Hunters interested in both the Lake Katharine gun and archery hunts will have to purchase separate lottery tickets for each event.
Some of the hunts will be antlerless deer only while some will allow the taking of antlered deer but only after harvesting an antlerless deer first. Other special regulations will be addressed at the orientation meetings following the drawings.
Hunters may apply for hunts at multiple sites, but they must attend the meeting for each hunt in order to enter the drawing. Applicants should not mail entry forms.
One of the hunt locations in Eagle Creek in Garrettsville. The orientation meeting will be held at 9 a.m. on Aug. 20 at the Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve Office, 11027 Hopkins Rd. For more information on the Eagle Creek hunt, call Adam Wohlever (330-527-5118) or Emily Pellegrini (330-527-0937).
Other hunt locations include Lake Katharine in Jackson County; Chaparral Prairie, Davis Memorial, Shoemaker, Johnson Ridge and Whipple in Adams County; Miller Nature Sanctuary in Highland County; Caesar Creek in Warren County; Goll Woods in Fulton County; Lawrence Woods in Hardin County; Gallagher Fen in Clark County; Hueston Woods in Butler and Preble counties, and Blackhand Gorge in Licking County.
For more information visit the ODNR website.
This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: A special deer hunt will be at Eagle Creek Nature Preserve
