
‘Fun in the sun’ requires some common sense
There is an incredible amount of sun-resistant clothing on the market. If you didn’t read the label, you’d never know it was sun-resistant. The clothing is very stylish.
It doesn’t have to be scorching

There is an incredible amount of sun-resistant clothing on the market. If you didn’t read the label, you’d never know it was sun-resistant. The clothing is very stylish.
It doesn’t have to be scorching

It’s miserably dry near my home in southwestern Illinois. Scary dry.
I repeatedly check the NOAA drought information, hoping to see some change and hope on the horizon. I spend too much time on

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Illinois DNR, and the Chicago Park District this month released federally endangered piping plover chicks back into the wild at Lake Michigan’s Montrose Beach.
The July 13 release

The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation recently put out a special report for 2022 angling statistics, and the results were a little surprising. Since COVID restrictions kept everyone away from each other and preferably outside,

Each passing summer seems to bring us increasingly long heat waves and high outdoor temperatures. These extended periods of high heat can present some particular challenges for outdoor recreationists.
As the sun’s rays beam

Extending from southern Illinois all the way up to Minnesota, the Upper Mississippi River basin’s system comprises an extremely complex network of streams and watersheds.
Little is known about how those systems and the

Scientists say the virus that causes COVID was transmitted from humans to deer, before mutating and potentially being transmitted from deer back to humans.
The research is a serious undertaking by USDA’s Animal

As shooters from around the world make their way to southern Illinois for the 124th Grand American Trapshooting Championships, uncertainty lingers about the host site’s future.
By the time the 125th event rolls around

Hunters and fishermen in Illinois have long been serenaded by a variety of katydid species – the insect’s songs and chirps are common in some woods and fields.
Now the katydid has made the
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