Sunday, December 14, 2025
The Dirt on Conservation

The Dirt on Conservation

If you are like me, you have a fascination with streams and creeks. This fascination may be due to my childhood. There was a stream near our house where kids from the neighborhood spent many summer days playing.

I often get questions from hunters and other wildlife enthusiasts about improving whitetail deer habitat on their property. In many instances, these conversations are immediately directed toward the planting of food plots. Landowners want to know the best food source they can plant to attract deer and other wildlife.

Conservation districts are where the why and how of conservation come together. The mission of the Guernsey Soil and Water Conservation District is to promote the sustainable use of natural resources.

Carroll County Soil and Water Conservation District is offering their no-till drills for only $8 per acre to plant cover crops.

It's no secret that every tax funded agency has been under scrutiny the past several years to justify its existence, and soil and water...

Over the next few months, soil and water conservation districts will be having their annual meetings and open houses. These events will showcase all the conservation activities within the district for the past year.

This is the time of year when harvest begins, and farmers become aware of where erosion and gullying is under way in their fields...

This summer, the Coshocton Soil and Water Conservation District partnered with the Pomerene Center for the Arts and the farming community for a special project this summer. This project was done in honor of Coshocton’s bicentennial and agriculture’s prominent and enduring place in our county history.

Everyone likes a success story, and when Maggie Corder from Jefferson SWCD wrote a couple of weeks ago about the things that were done...
fall webworms

The fall webworm is native to North America and is common from Canada into Mexico. Learn why their webs are more noticeable during fall.