January 22, 2024

Iowa’s White Horse Access Wildlife Management Area near Auburn increases by 53 acres

Featured, Hunting, Iowa, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Tom Giese

A southeast Sac County wildlife management area will expand by 53 acres, following a unanimous vote recently by the Iowa Natural Resources Commission.
The board, with two members absent, approved the purchase of two tracts bordering the White Horse Access Wildlife Management Area (WMA), located 3 miles north of Auburn.

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Winter fishing open water is worth the effort; here’s how to stay warm

Blogs, Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, New York, Opinion / Bill Hilts Jr.

It was 26 degrees outside when I crawled out of bed at 5:30 a.m. to make my morning cup of Tim Horton’s coffee. It was a morning like any other with one exception – I would be going fishing on the lower Niagara River in two hours.
It started with an invitation from Capt. Ned Librock of Catching Dreams Charters. He had also asked his Catching Dreams partner and board member Roy Larson, but when Larson saw what the temperatures were going to be, he took a rain check.

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Saugeyes are ‘new kid,’ while muskies struggling at Lake Sule in Illinois’ Ogle County

Illinois, Lake Profile, Lake Profile / Ralph Loos

There’s a new kid on the block, so to speak, that many Lake Sule anglers will likely get to meet very soon.
If they haven’t hooked one already. Saugeyes were initially stocked in the Ogle County lake by DNR in 2022.

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Renown deer research facility in Texas hit by CWD

National Hunting, National News / Staff Report

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists have reported a suspect-positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a 14-month-old captive male white-tailed deer at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area research facility.

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Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar

Calendar, Illinois / Staff Report

A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the Jan. 26, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.

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Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Hunters cited for using salt/mineral blocks in Rock Island County

Cuffs & Collars, Illinois / Staff Report

Illinois cuff and collars are field reports from Illinois Conservation Police CPOs. These reports are from the Jan. 26, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.

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Missouri deer hunters set new state record for total harvest in 2023-24

Home Page News, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, National News, News / Staff Report

Missouri’s 2023-2024 deer-hunting season ended Jan. 15 with a preliminary record-setting total deer harvest of 326,026. This year’s new harvest record surpasses the one set in 2006 of 325,457.
Of the deer harvested, 147,705 were antlered bucks, 29,060 were button bucks, and 149,261 were does.

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Illinois DNR seeking instructors for its summer fishing clinics

Fishing, Illinois, News / Staff Report

A few months of teaching others to fish? If that sounds like a good way to spend the summer, the Illinois DNR wants to hear from you.
The agency is accepting applications for instructors for 2024 summer fishing clinics, better known as the Illinois Urban Fishing Program.

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Illinois Mixed Bag: Bald eagle event set for West Alton Feb. 10

Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Staff and News Reports

Southwestern Illinois’ premier celebration of bald eagles returns for 2024 to the Audubon Center at Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary, which is actually across the Mississippi River in West Alton, Mo. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 10.

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Iowa’s White Horse Access Wildlife Management Area near Auburn increases by 53 acres

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Saugeyes are ‘new kid,’ while muskies struggling at Lake Sule in Illinois’ Ogle County

Renown deer research facility in Texas hit by CWD

Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar

Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Hunters cited for using salt/mineral blocks in Rock Island County

Missouri deer hunters set new state record for total harvest in 2023-24

Illinois DNR seeking instructors for its summer fishing clinics

Illinois Mixed Bag: Bald eagle event set for West Alton Feb. 10

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