Monday, January 12, 2026
greycen johnson

Greycen Johnson, of East Palestine, Ohio, won the 5-year-old Boy State Pedal Tractor pull at the Hartford Fair on Aug. 12.
leaf-covered path through woods

The ODNR Division of Forestry invites the public to attend an in-person open house to learn more about the Annual Work Plan for State Forests.
bee

A research team led by Penn State was the first to study how extreme heat waves affect the host-pathogen relationship between two species of solitary bees.
apple on a desk

Ohio recently invested $122 million in early childhood education to allow 14,000 more children from low-income families to attend preschool.
kelly schott

An article about wetlands from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife’s Wild Ohio magazine won a national communications award.
tree, moss

The Second Annual Bigfoot Basecamp Weekend returns to Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District's Pleasant Hill Lake Park Oct. 5-8.
pigs on pasture

The public is invited to see regenerative agriculture in practice at an on-farm workshop from 1-3 p.m. Sept. 17 at Skyline Pastures, in Berks County.
New ODNR officers

Fifteen Ohio Department of Natural Resources law enforcement officers were sworn in at the Deer Creek State Park Lodge on Aug. 16.
jogging

TuscParks is partnering with Canal Tavern of Zoar to host the 5K Trail Run-Walk on Oct. 15.
solar farm pollinator area

The solar farm will produce an estimated 35,700 megawatt hours of electricity annually to help the University of Pittsburgh reach its sustainability goals.