It was all sweetness and glad-hand clasping during this past weekend's Outdoor Writers of Ohio's 71st Annual Conference at the Lodge at Geneva State Park.

Besides the group's journalist/members was Sean D. Logan, Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Most exchanges between the parties were cordial and pleasant without a hint of the rough and tumble politics that swirls around the Strickland Administration and the Governor's effort to get reelected.

Even the affair of the indicted six Ohio Division of Wildlife officials was not on the agenda.

All of this should be as it was, given that Logan was a guest at a reception given by the group.

- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischkorn@News-Herald.com