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Ohio
Click here to download/view the Region 3 Fish and Wildlife Service 2007 Ohio State Fact Book in .PDF format (File size: 2.5 MB)
Click here to download/view the Midwest Region Summary of Offices and Activities in PDF format (File size: 4 MB)
Links to Offices and Services in Ohio
National Wildlife Refuges
Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge
419-898-0014Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
419-898-0014West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge
419-898-0014Ecological Services
Reynoldsburg Ecological Services Office
614-469-6923Law Enforcement
Delaware Law Enforcement Office
614-368-0137Sandusky Law Enforcement Office
419-625-9713Other Programs
Federal Aid
Migratory Bird Conservation
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Private Lands Office
RealtyOther Information
Travel Information
Midwest Natural Resources Group (MNRG)
Ohio State Facts
The Service employs 24 people in Ohio
The Fiscal Year 2006 Resource Management budget for Service activities in Ohio totaled $2.7 million
National Wildlife Refuge Facts
Three National Wildlife Refuges in Ohio total 9,081 acres
In 2004, more than 268,000 people visited national wildlife refuges in Ohio to hunt, fish, participate in interpretive programs and view wildlife
Federal Assistance to State Fish and Wildlife Programs
In 2006 Ohio received:
$8.4 million for sport fish restoration
$6.2 million for wildlife restoration and hunter education
Wildlife Restoration Act funds have goals through significant land acquisitions. One of these acquisitions is the Tri-Valley Wildlife Area, located in Muskingum County. This 16,200-acre reclaimed strip mine was purchased for $4.5 million and will provide increased recreational activities for the public and additional habitat for wildlife.
Threatened Snake Returns to Lake Erie Island
Researchers and biologists in 2002 confirmed that the Lake Erie water snake, a threatened species, has returned to Green Island—the first confirmed sighting in more than 20 years. Managed by the Ohio Division of Wildlife as a wildlife refuge, 17-acre Green Island is one of the limestone islands in western Lake Erie on which water snakes were found in the 1930s and 1940s. Surveys in the 1980s and 1990s found no water snakes, but on a visit to the island this July, researchers from Northern Illinois University and Fish and Wildlife Service employees captured 10 Lake Erie water snakes and implanted them with tracking tags. They also observed nine more snakes that were not captured.
Ottawa NWR Draws Birds, Visitors, Dollars to Ohio
More than 260,000 visitors flocked to Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in 2004, many of them to see the songbirds, waterfowl and other bird species that use the refuge and the adjacent state-owned Magee Marsh as stopovers during their long migrations. Visitors to the refuge and the marsh, who pump some $5.6 million into the local economy each year, are rewarded with miles of hiking trails, many of them disabled accessible, and the opportunity to observe and photograph birds on a refuge that was recently named as a “birding hotspot” by Birder’s World magazine. Construction on a new visitors center/office will be completed in 2007.
