Matt Ranz caught a 44-pound blue catfish at Miami Whitewater Forest on May 17, 2018. Congratulations, Matt!

Brent Jones, of Okeana, Ohio caught this beautiful bass at Miami Whitewater Forest Lake May 17, 2018. Nice work, Brent!

“Let’s go to the park!” That’s what we hear children say that visit Parky’s Farm: “Can we go to the park?” Silly kids; our time will be spent looking at more educational aspects of this park. We will compare hay and straw hay (hay is a grass, mowed, dried and fed to livestock; whereas straw is […]

The Great Parks Bass Series Tournament at Winton Woods Lake is on as scheduled for May 19. The lake is currently at normal pool and looks great. However, Winton Woods Lake is a flood control lake for the Mill Creek. If we get heavy thunderstorms and the lake floods, then the tournament will be moved […]

In spite of technological innovation, today’s offices are more similar than they are different to the offices of 50 years ago. Sure, we have smaller, sleeker monitors and devices, capable of exponentially more processing power than even ten years ago. But there’s one thing that has remained constant in the office setting, and that is […]

Over the last several years we have seen the news report on the mega-wildfires in the western United States. Every year these fires seem to get bigger and more destructive. The loss to life, property and habitat of these mega-fires will have consequences that we will not fully understand for years to come. These fires […]

Spring was in full bloom at Miami Whitewater Forest Lake on Sunday May 6. Wow, what a difference two weeks can be! On April 21 these fishermen braved a 32-degree morning with spitting snow. The weather was much more comfortable for this derby, but the fishing was very challenging. Successful fishermen understand seasonal patterns. They […]

Recently I was witness to a ruby-throated hummingbird’s (Archilochus colubris) seemingly miraculous recovery from an onslaught of attacks from another territorial hummer. When I came upon the tiny feathered creature it was laying in the grass with its head down. It was hard to know whether it was going to make it. I, on the […]