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New director takes wheel to steer Illinois DNR

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The Illinois DNR’s ship has bobbed and weaved and pitched over the past two decades, but it has managed to stay afloat.
Now the agency has a new captain in charge of keeping it upright. A central Illinois native with experience in conservation, public administration, finance and law enforcement has taken control of the agency at a time when it faces a broad range of challenges involving wildlife, public lands, outdoor recreation and resource management.

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Michigan conservation community remembers Dr. Howard Tanner

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Howard Tanner, the acclaimed fisheries biologist and conservation leader whose vision helped transform the Great Lakes and created one of Michigan’s most important recreational fisheries, is being remembered for a legacy that continues to shape the region more than a half-century after his groundbreaking work began.
Tanner, a Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources alumnus, died Aug. 16 at the age of 102.

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Illinois teal hunters to get early start on new duck season

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Last season’s numbers are still pending, but Illinois waterfowl hunters head into the 2026 early teal season with confidence following a breakout performance two years ago.
A sharp increase in the state’s teal harvest during the 2024 September season was reported, even as harvests of both major teal categories declined nationally. Illinois hunters will have another early opportunity to pursue teal when the state’s early teal season opens Sept. 5.

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Michigan’s wolves on camera – numbers tell quite a story

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Michigan’s wolves are proving to be a lot harder to count than they are to photograph. A new network of more than 1,300 remote cameras across the Upper Peninsula is giving researchers their first year-round look at the state’s wolf population – and revealing just how dramatically those numbers can change with the seasons.
Michigan DNR’s Andy Henion recently reported on the effort, offering a look at how Michigan State University researchers and the Michigan DNR deployed the cameras throughout the Upper Peninsula as part of a project designed to complement the state’s traditional winter wolf track surveys.

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Giant invasive carp pulled from Illinois’ Schiller Pond near O’Hare Airport

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A routine fisheries survey at a pond near O’Hare International Airport turned into a battle with a 91-pound fish that was more than 4 feet long.
Forest Preserves of Cook County fisheries workers pulled the massive bighead carp from 6-acre Schiller Pond on July 23 while conducting an electrofishing survey designed to remove invasive carp from a waterway northwest of Chicago. The fish weighed 91.4 pounds and measured 4 feet, 3 inches long, according to the Forest Preserves.

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After recent bite at state recreation area, Michigan DNR advises to ‘give rattlesnakes space’

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The Michigan DNR is urging residents and visitors to give eastern massasauga rattlesnakes plenty of space following a recent snakebite at Proud Lake Recreation Area that has sparked increased interest in the state’s only venomous snake.
The warning comes after a 41-year-old Michigan man was bitten July 21 while attempting to photograph an eastern massasauga near a boat launch at the Oakland County recreation area.

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Lifting of a decades-old bear hunting prohibition floated on Michigan’s Bois Blanc Island

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The Michigan DNR is seeking public comment on a proposal that would lift a more than 40-year-old prohibition on bear hunting on Bois Blanc Island in Mackinac County.
If approved by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, the change would remove a hunting restriction that has been in place since May 1985, making Bois Blanc Island consistent with the rest of Michigan’s bear management system.

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Spunky Bottoms a wetland restoration success story on the Illinois River

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Spunky Bottoms, an appropriately-named stretch of the Illinois River in Brown County, has become one of Illinois’ most successful wetland restoration projects, demonstrating how careful management can help revive floodplain ecosystems that have been dramatically altered.
Managed by The Nature Conservancy, the 1,300-acre Merwin Preserve at Spunky Bottoms provides habitat for hundreds of species of wildlife while serving as a living laboratory for scientists studying floodplain restoration techniques that could benefit wetlands throughout the Illinois River Valley.

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