The Ohio Wildlife Council is hearing proposals for hunting and trapping season dates for the 2025-26 season. They also heard proposals for potential rule changes, according to a news release.

Hunters across Ohio checked 238,137 white-tailed deer during the 2024-25 hunting season ... 213,927 deer in the 2023-24 season, while the three-year average from 2021 to 2023 was 207,295.

From 2021 to 2023, hunters checked an average of 19,439 deer during the gun season ... 2 during the opening day of the weeklong gun hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural ...

Ohio’s deer season, which began in leafy September, ended with the Feb. 2 close of archery hunting. A series of successful firearms seasons came and went along the way. By most measures ...

Deer Surveillance Area exists to track spread of fatal chronic wasting disease With CWD spreading, the tracking zone is also likely to expand CWD is extremely hard to contain What it’s meant to ...