
Gretchen Steele: In southern Illinois’ outdoors, April lies
Easter has just passed through, we’ve been eating big grey morels for a good week, and even the big sought-after yellows were found by a few in the last few days. Lilacs are blooming.

Easter has just passed through, we’ve been eating big grey morels for a good week, and even the big sought-after yellows were found by a few in the last few days. Lilacs are blooming.

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

In west-central Illinois, a small patch of land is poised to make a big difference for wild turkeys and other wildlife.
Through support from the Illinois NWTF State Chapter, NWTF volunteers and partners are

In a tuneup for next month’s IHSA high school bass fishing championship series, Edwardsville High School angler KJ Jamison teamed with Emmy Pieri to capture a win at the ICASSTT tournament on Lake of Egypt.<br

Fish and wildlife conservation operates at the intersection of science, public values, and politics. Tensions are unavoidable, but increasingly, it’s tipped too far towards popularity. When conservation becomes a contest for public approval rather than

First, I have to apologize to Todd Ring, the patient Huntley man who submitted a Letter to the Editor concerning the ongoing – and somewhat confusing even to firearms experts – legislation aimed at expanding

Have you ever noticed that the same anglers seem to be catching big bass all the time? And you’re not?
Sure, some anglers are lucky. But those who are catching big ’uns consistently put

One of Illinois’ premier fishing holes has adjusted its crappie regulations this year following a huge spawn that has put too many smaller slabs in its water.
Meanwhile, a survey of Kinkaid Lake this

DNR and the Illinois Farm Bureau are again working with federal agencies to get a handle on the growing black vulture population.
When it comes to the state’s “kettle” – a term for vultures
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