Bigfoot weekend to be held at Pleasant Hill Lake Park

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

W.Va. passes telehealth bill to address veterinarian shortages

A recent West Virginia bill aims to help address a shortage of veterinarians by allowing veterinarians from other states to practice telehealth in West Virginia.

Ohio bill seeks to deregulate state’s ephemeral waters

A recently introduced bill in the Ohio House aims to deregulate ephemeral waters, following changes at a federal level last year.
The bill covers “ephemeral features”: streams, wetlands, ponds and other waters that don’t have water year round and mainly exist after precipitation, like rain or snow.

Ohio broadband grant program bill falls through

After receiving support from various legislators, rural groups and others, a bill that would have created a statewide broadband grant program in Ohio lost momentum at the end of 2020.

House Bill 13 passed the Ohio House in June of 2020 and went through three hearings in a Senate committee. But as the legislature neared the end of the 133rd General Assembly, it never came up for a vote in the Senate. It never even made it out of the committee.

Ohio grain farmers talk trade and farm bill

The Ohio Grain Farmers Symposium was held Dec. 19 in Columbus, where trade and the farm bill were top topics.

Shale gas drilling permits increase in Ohio, Pa.

Oil and gas drilling permits remain steady in the Marcellus and Utica plays. There are now 1,472 oil and gas wells producing in Ohio’s Utica shale.

New regulations of shale drilling take effect in Pennsylvania

Shale oil and gas: Pennsylvania updated its rules regulating unconventional drilling practices and hydraulic fracturing.