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Outdoors Insider, with Dale Sunderlin: Waterfowl dates set for 2008-09 DALE SUNDERLINStar Beacon “Anyone interested in providing input and participating in Ohio’s professional wildlife management process is welcome,” David M. Graham, chief of the Division of Wildlife, said.
Graham adds that fish and wildlife biologists along with law enforcement officers will be on hand to answer questions. Open houses will be held at the same day and time in Akron, Athens, Columbus, Findlay, Huron, and Xenia. Information recorded at these open houses is forwarded to the division’s central office in Columbus, where proposed rule changes to the Ohio Administrative Code are considered. Again, Open Houses will be held on Saturday, Sept. 13 from noon to 3 p.m. in each of the state’s five wildlife district offices to provide the public an opportunity to view and discuss proposed fish and wildlife regulations with state wildlife officials. Directions to the open houses can be obtained by calling 1-800-WILDLIFE or visiting wildohio.com on the Internet. Issues at hand Topics for the Open Houses are proposed rule changes to the Ohio Administrative Code, and include: n The prohibition of possessing or propagating wild boar. My comment — This one is a very hot topic with several Southern Ohio preserve owners taking issue with the Division in trying to basically, put them out of business. The Division has been very tight lipped on how the actual proposal reads and what sort of timelines and compensation preserve owners will be given, if any. I do know that preserve owners are concerned about their lively hood and plan on putting up one heck of a fight. The Division is sighting habitat destruction and disease control, Pseudorabies and Swine Brucellosis. as their underlying reason for the ban. Disease wise neither of which has been found in the state of Ohio within the last 20+ years, according to the preserve owners. As for habitat destruction, the preserve owners are contending that much if not all of it is done by feral hogs that have gotten loose from area farms where the owners just do not contain them properly. One preserve owner went so far as to say, “Heck, this is a poor area. People can go to the livestock auction and pick up a slew of piglets for darn near nothing, fatten them up over the summer and have something to survive on during the winter months. If a couple of them get out, they figure so what. I’ve got six or eight more in there, why worry about the two that escaped “That’s where the habitat destruction is coming from, not our wild boar.When one of ours gets out, we try everything possible to get it back in, that’s money out of our pocket!” This may be a rough fight for both the Division and the preserve owners and the outcome may well affect our right to hunt wild boar in the state of Ohio. 
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