{"id":377377,"date":"2025-11-14T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:09:18","slug":"ohio-reduces-deer-hunting-limits-in-several-counties-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio reduces deer hunting limits in several counties for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Ohio Wildlife Council approved new white-tailed deer hunting limits in Athens, Meigs, Morgan, and Washington counties for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Whitetail Deer\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TOVA7NPPQZE7RLTKODNJMZAE3M.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"638\" \/>Whitetail Deer(David Kenyon | Michigan Department of Natural Resources)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Beginning Dec. 1, the opening day of the seven-day deer gun season, the bag limit for Athens, Meigs, and Washington counties is reduced to one deer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bag limit in Morgan County is now two deer per person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The limit reduction is due to an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) is a viral disease that primarily affects white-tailed deer, though it can also impact mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and domestic ruminants like sheep, cows, and goats. It\u2019s caused by two related viruses: Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease virus (EHD) and bluetongue virus (BT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The limit remains in place until the close of the 2025-26 deer hunting season, Feb. 1, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The affected counties will still have a three-deer limit until Sunday, Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deer bag limits in the rest of the state remain unchanged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">View the 2025-26 Hunting and Trapping Regulations for more information on current limits in Ohio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Ohio Wildlife Council approved new white-tailed deer hunting limits in Athens, Meigs, Morgan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4749,181283,94207,174148,133489,181284,984,70240,24778,159,18090,67,132,68,181285,181286,109022,181287,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-377377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-antelope","10":"tag-autumn","11":"tag-buck","12":"tag-cervid","13":"tag-cervidae","14":"tag-deer","15":"tag-doe","16":"tag-grass","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-trees","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-white-tail","23":"tag-white-tailed","24":"tag-white-tailed-deer","25":"tag-whitetail","26":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115545857418479011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}