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May 1, 2024

2024 New York Great Lakes Preview: Lake Ontario full of promise and choices

Lake Ontario, a shared natural resource between two countries, may have been named after the Iroquois Native American word meaning “beautiful lake” or “sparkling water.” The name appeared on maps for the first time as early as 1656, shortly after the first Europeans called it “Ontario” 15 years before that.
There is a long and storied history in this Great Lake, a body of water that receives most of its sustenance from the upper four Great Lakes – primarily through the Niagara River as a final conduit. Fish and fishing have been an important component to its history, and it still is today.

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Timing of Illinois’ timber rattlesnake emergence studied

Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey have found clues to determine when the state’s timber rattlesnakes emerge from their cold-weather underground dens.
Just in case anyone wants to spy them sunning themselves in forest foliage as spring warms.
Timber rattlesnakes are considered threatened and are found in most of Illinois, particularly in southern Illinois and along the Mississippi and Illinois river border counties in remote areas with sloped terrain. Once temperatures reach the low 50s, they congregate in groups of 20 or 30 in dens to hibernate through the winter.

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To the chagrin of waterfowlers, Canada geese becoming more suburban in Illinois

While hunters have been seeing fewer and fewer Canada geese from blinds along the state’s rivers in the fall, people living in Illinois cities and towns are noticing more and more of the birds – sometimes in the oddest places.
Across Chicago suburbs, spring is when geese start putting down temporary roots – setting up nests and laying eggs in parking lots, on store roofs and in concrete planters, to name a few of the human-made structures housing the wildlife.

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