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December 10, 2024

Collecting bat ‘guano’ reveals surprise species in Illinois

Featured, Home Page News, Illinois, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Within the deep, rolling wooded ravines along the Embarras River south of Charleston is a biologically rich area known as Warbler Ridge. This 1,059-acre site contains five areas protected within the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission system.
Lately, bats are drawing the attention of volunteers and visitors – and, since 2018, they are attracting a team of Illinois researchers.

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Illinois Conservation Foundation names first ‘Excellence’ honorees

Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

The Illinois Conservation Foundation released winners in the first-ever Illinois Outdoor Excellence Awards.
The inaugural award winners will be honored alongside the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame inductees at the annual ICF Gala on March 13. The 2024 Illinois Outdoor Excellence Award Winners are:

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Does testing roadkill deer for CWD make sense? Illinois samples a few

Featured, Illinois, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Of the 124 “roadkill” deer tested for CWD in Illinois during Fiscal Year 2024, five turned out to be positive.
LaSalle County had the most roadkill deer tested with 24 – and two of those deer tested positive. Grundy, Kane, and Will counties each had one CWD-positive roadkill. An ongoing look at how roadkill deer may impact the spread of CWD makes Illinois’ effort to test them somewhat unique.

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Illinois Mixed Bag: DNR, Corps announce changes at Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area

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DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced changes to management responsibilities at the Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area. About 2,600 acres at Eckert’s Woods and Speaker Lake sub-impoundments will be returned to the USACE for wildlife management efforts.

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Ralph Loos: Wackos in our Illinois woods are stealing the spotlight – then using it to hunt

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, Opinion /

I’ve gradually become more curious about the harvest of criminals from Illinois’ woods than I am about the harvest of whitetails. It’s not that I don’t trust the deer harvest numbers, it’s just that they’ve become way too predictable. Which may be the same thing as saying I don’t trust them.
That’s neither here nor there, of course, because anytime I open a document, initiate a review of the text and come across a paragraph that offers something along the lines of, “CPOs Skelton and Williams arrested a subject for unlawfully hunting with the use of a thermal equipped unmanned aircraft . . .”

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Commentary: Lets re-think New York’s holiday-week hunt

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, New York, Opinion /

Just like that, New York deer hunters were informed of the holiday week deer hunt, extending the deer season by reopening for another seven days, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.
No deer hunting groups or sportsmen’s groups lobbied for this season. No human dimension studies were conducted, no public meetings, no public surveys, no structured decision-making process and no long-term evolution of a season change request.

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