Illinois has a state fish, state tree, state flower, state insect and even a state prairie grass, yet no state mushroom. But after being contacted by a fifth-grade teacher at Prairie School of DuPage, State Sen. Seth Lewis, R-Bartlett, was inspired to change that.
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Syracuse, N.Y. — The New York State Sportsman’s Association is holding its annual spring gun show April 20-21 at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. Considered to be the largest show of its kind in New York, past shows have seen 800 to 1,000 dealer exhibits.
New York Mixed Bag: Syracuse gun show, more events scheduled for late April Read More »
The application period for the 2024 elk hunt is open through May 31. New this year, the Black River Elk Range will be open to hunting for the first time since elk were reintroduced to the state and applicants must now select between the Black River Elk Range or Clam Lake Elk Range when applying.
The Indiana DNR has confirmed the state’s first positive case of chronic wasting disease in LaGrange County.
This positive case is adjacent to a region where CWD had previously been detected in Michigan. CWD has been detected in wild deer in 33 states, including all states bordering Indiana.
First positive case of chronic wasting disease found in Indiana wild deer Read More »
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is bringing its 2024 North American Rendezvous to the Minneapolis Convention Center April 18-20. It’s the first time the national event has not been held in the northern Rockies.
Volunteers are needed in Cheboygan County through early June to stand guard as mature lake sturgeon head upstream to their spawning sites along the Black River.
The Black Lake Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow is working in partnership with the Michigan DNR and various tribes to protect the fish from illegal harvest during the six-week spawning season.
Mixed Bag: Volunteers sought to protect sturgeon along the Black River Read More »
The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) has scheduled its singing ground surveys for woodcock for April 15. Members of the RGS Upland Bird Hunt (UBH) Chapter will conduct the surveys, but other members of the public are invited to learn about the woodcock ‘sky dance,’ one of nature’s truly unique courtship displays.
A 42-year-old man died after he was pulled from a lake where his kayak tipped over in Fairfield County on the evening of March 3, authorities said.
Fairfield County Sheriff Alex Lape told WBNS-TV in Columbus that deputies were called to Greenfield Lake in Carroll just after 6:05 p.m. for a possible drowning.
Mixed Bag: Kayak angler dies on Greenfield Lake Read More »
The U.S. Forest Service announced that a joint effort continues to improve the health of streams in the Allegheny National Forest.
The service is using what it calls “large wood additions” to improve stream health by directionally felling carefully selected trees into the streams to improve aquatic habitat and slow flood flows. Five miles of large wood additions have been added to Bear Creek in Elk County over the past two months.
Partnerships to boost health of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest streams Read More »
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