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May 1, 2025

Gretchen Steele: Conservation efforts, new logo announced for Du Quoin State Fairgrounds Nature Areas in Illinois

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For 11 days a year, the Du Quoin State Fair in Illinois bustles with carnival rides, livestock exhibitors, food vendors, and live music.
Yet the fair occupies only a fraction of the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds, leaving hundreds of acres in their natural state. These natural areas, with their diverse ecosystems and unique wildlife, make the fairgrounds an ideal location for conservation efforts.

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Breaking down the many black bass subspecies beyond largemouths and smallmouths

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Ask most Outdoor News followers to name the different species of black bass and, most likely, you’ll hear largemouth and smallmouth.
Rightly so. Those are the primary species of bass we have in northern states. But if you examine bass across the country, you will learn there are actually nine species of black bass. Here is a rundown on each one.

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Focus on these important details to trigger a tom

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According to my turkey-hunting mentor, Ray Eye, skilled hunters in the Missouri Ozarks have forever wished there was no such thing as a spring season. Why? Because they think it’s not fair to hunt gobblers when it’s so easy to trick them.

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Longtime coordinator reflects on growth of Minnesota DNR’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman program

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East Bethel, Minn. — As the mentors and mentees – who’d worked for several weeks to hone their bowhunting skills – headed for their turkey-hunting blinds April 25, Linda Bylander, the decades-long coordinator of the DNR’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman program, reminisced about her career and its impact.

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Streams of Thought: Kudos to Minnesota’s Jeff Manke and others like him

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I haven’t yet taken the opportunity to offer my congratulations and thanks to our 2025 Person of the Year, Jeff Manke, of Cambridge, Minn.
Jeff’s various contributions to the outdoors and his local community were featured in the previous edition of Outdoor News, and he follows in a long line of worthy award winners dating back to 1999. It’s been my honor to help select those winners for the past nine years.

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Dan Ladd: Here’s why the first 10 days of New York’s turkey season are my favorite

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The first week to 10 days of New York’s spring gobbler season is pretty much my favorite. And for a lot of reasons. The chance for success is surely one of them as – especially in recent years – luck has come my way early on. But it goes well beyond that.
It starts simply with the anticipation and excitement that comes with the beginning of any season. Once I became a dedicated turkey hunter, May 1 was a date that didn’t even have to be circled on the calendar.

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