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Jeremiah Haas: Expanding our love of animals to include hunting

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Hunting has seen a decreasing trend in nearly all states across the country. States are offering grants to increase participation using multiple avenues; however, the declining trend has continued the past few decades.
Recently, while at a zoo where their theme was about conservation of wild places, I could not help but wonder why the two groups are not helping each other with these issues. The quick answer is a lack of understanding of the goals each has.

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Jeremiah Haas: It’s important to know how nature deals with heat

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This summer has been one of the warmer and muggier summers that we have had in the past couple of years in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. While we tend not to get the 100-degree days of yesteryear anymore, high humidity and 90s have been rampant this summer.
While I can seek refuge in the air conditioning as I do my summer chores, our wildlife — particularly deer and turkey — are not as fortunate and must use other techniques to deal with the heat.

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Jeremiah Haas: Time to start gathering early season buck intel

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As this summer eventually eases into fall, deer hunters will start to wonder what bucks are around from the previous year, get an idea how much antler growth has happened on the bucks that we passed last season, and have a small hope that maybe a new buck of a lifetime has wandered onto the property.

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Jeremiah Haas: Reflecting on 250 years of the outdoors in the U.S.

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America was founded on a set of principles in that our rights come from God, not from the government, and that we were free people that could determine our own paths. These principles were unique amongst the countries of the world at the time; hence the great experiment began 250 years ago.
When you think about the outdoors in 1776, it was just a little different than now.

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Jeremiah Haas: Enjoy moments to make the most out of Father’s Day

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Father’s Day (June 21) is a weekend where we celebrate, honor, and appreciate those things that our father has done for us. While it may not get as much fanfare as Mother’s Day, it is an opportunity for you to make lasting memories with the man who has likely sacrificed a lot for you.
So how do we tie this to the outdoors?

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Jeremiah Haas: What Quad Cities anglers need to know about lake sturgeon

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Lake sturgeon are a fish species that create stories of a lifetime for many anglers. To pursue them, historically, you had to either go to Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, St. Croix River, or to the northwoods on the U.S.-Canadian border.
That statement has been true for the last century but things are beginning to change around the Quad Cities waterways. Multiple states are working on the restoration of the species and some of those animals are showing up locally.

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Jeremiah Haas: The conclusion of a failed turkey hunt

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We started this story in the last issue of Illinois Outdoor News – the one highlighting the importance of sharing examples of failure, along with examples of success.
Going into 2026, I had decided that I was going to attempt to harvest two birds with one shot. I never had the tags to accomplish the feat. So, this year I decided to get two first-season tags and solely concentrate on accomplishing this task.

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Jeremiah Haas: Lake sturgeon stocking part of recovery project in Illinois

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Twenty-one lake sturgeon raised at the Quad Cities Nuclear Station fish hatchery were released into the Illinois River at Starved Rock State Park on March 27.
This was a research project collaboratively conducted by Constellation, Southern Illinois University, and DNR to see how large young-of-year lake sturgeon could grow over the winter in a hatchery setting.

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