Illinois Mixed Bag: Youth turkey hunters take 1,309 birds
Staff Report
April 19, 2023
A mix of outdoor news stories from across Illinois published in the April 21, 2023 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
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Illinois school habitat projects to receive funding through DNR grant program
Staff Report
April 19, 2023
Seventeen Illinois schools have been awarded Schoolyard Habitat Action grants totaling $15,700 from DNR and the Illinois Conservation Foundation.
The Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant program supports the development or enhancement of wildlife habitat, such
Research: Blood from deer kills bacteria that causes Lyme disease
Staff and News Reports
April 19, 2023
The study demonstrates that the blood of the white-tailed deer kills the corkscrew-shaped bacterium that causes Lyme disease, a potentially debilitating illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year some
42-inch invasive grass carp helps family win Palos Park derby in Illinois
Tim Bunton
April 19, 2023
The Koch family apparently did its part to fight invasive carp, reportedly yanking a 42-pound grass carp out of a Cook County lake.
But there is some confusion as to whether or not the
Two nutria, a hugely destructive invasive, caught by beaver trapper in southern Illinois
Kathy Andrews Wright
April 16, 2023
Nutria, one of the planet’s most ecologically harmful invasive species, are coming to Illinois.
Actually, some of them are already here. Since 2019, a handful of credible reports indicate that nutria – a beaver
Legislation that could lead to Illinois DNR selling shooting and recreation complex moves to Senate
Ralph Loos
April 15, 2023
Legislation that could lead to DNR selling the World Shooting and Recreation Complex passed the Illinois House by a vote of 101 to 1 before being sent to the Senate, where it landed in the
Shotgun hunters may find scrutiny in Illinois with new gun law now in effect
Ralph Loos
April 14, 2023
The Protect Illinois Communities Act – the result of House Bill 5471, which became Public Act 102-1116 back on Jan. 10, went into effect April 10. In general it means gun owners can no longer
Report by Feds, anglers cites offshore wind impacts on fish
Staff Report
April 12, 2023
The goal was to solidify existing knowledge of the impacts and call for further research in many areas.
Alewife numbers stable as researchers find no significant change in biomass in Lake Michigan
Steve Begnoche
April 7, 2023
In recent years, anglers had challenged findings of the annual prey fish surveys stating they saw more alewife than the surveys indicated were present. Anglers contended Lake Michigan could support more Chinook salmon than were
