A $1.2 million project to remove the Carpentersville Dam in Illinois will create a 10.2-mile unimpeded stretch of the Fox River, a stretch that is expected to benefit both fish and recreational kayak and canoe users.
Work was scheduled to begin this month. The removal project is expected to be finished in November.
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Schuyler County has long been part of a region in Illinois appreciated for its deer population.
But too much of a good thing is starting to eat at farmers in the county. More than 70 farmers attended a recent Farm Bureau meeting that centered on crop damage. Photos of the damage were shared with lawmakers and the Illinois Farm Bureau team in attendance.
The Illinois DNR and Springfield’s City Water, Light and Power are again allowing specially-permitted bowhunters to harvest deer on specific properties around Lake Springfield this fall.
The goal is to lower an overpopulation of the deer herd in the area, and DNR’s Illinois Recreational Access Program (IRAP) will help administer hunting between October and December. DNR is hopeful hunters who are awarded permits will be able to harvest at least three deer in a two-week time period.
The Brandon Road Interbasin project will install a complex series of innovative deterrents at the site to prevent upstream movement of carp and other aquatic nuisance species on the Illinois Waterway – a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that includes the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.
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Ernesto Amparan has been fishing Lake Michigan since he was just a tiny tot – yet despite ongoing jokes about Chicago shorelines, he’s never come across a dead body.
He’d never seen a sturgeon, either.
The facts intertwined in early July when Amparan, while captaining a Thin Blue Line Fishing tour that was toiling on the lake somewhere between Evanston and Wilmette, spotted a large floating object. A retired Chicago police officer, Amparan was quick to call and report the unknown item to authorities.
Lake Michigan fisherman: ‘Holy crap – it’s a sturgeon’ Read More »
It was last minute, but groups partnering with Illinois to prevent invasive carp from getting into Lake Michigan will take it.
On July 1 – the given deadline – it was announced that Illinois had signed a partnership agreement that will allow construction of the $1.15 billion Brandon Road Interbasin Project. The announcement came after weeks and weeks of pleading by neighboring states and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Gov. J.B. Pritzker to adhere to a June 30 deadline so that $274 million in federal funds wouldn’t be lost.
Duck hunters could see a bigger bag limit for northern pintails as soon as the 2025-26 season, if U.S. Fish and Wildlife population census numbers for the duck match set goals.
Regulations for the 2024-25 season are already set: The daily bag limit is one pintail daily in all four flyways. And it could stick there for awhile. A tease to potential bag limit bumps was offered May 23, when Delta Waterfowl suggested one – or all – flyway zones could see the pintail limit set at three ducks for the 2025-26 season.
A yellow perch caught in the southern waters of Lake Michigan that abut Illinois set a new Indiana state record for the species. The catch, a jumbo perch weighing 3 pounds, 2 ounces, shattered a 43-year-old Indiana record.
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Former DNR Director Marc Miller has landed back in Illinois – the Prairie Research Institute announced Jan. 16 that it had appointed Miller as its new deputy director.
Miller, who led DNR from 2009 to 2015, is known for spearheading resumption of the Illinois Conservation Congress and fighting to restore funding to DNR, which was struggling to recover after being drained of resources and staff when he took charge in February 2009.
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