
Trapping: Fall fur prices appear ‘stable to better’
By the time you read this, the fall trapping will be over and the serious winter trapping will be in full swing. At this writing I am trapping from a primitive deer camp in west-central

By the time you read this, the fall trapping will be over and the serious winter trapping will be in full swing. At this writing I am trapping from a primitive deer camp in west-central

Illinois CPOs have already reported two hunting-related fatalities related to treestands during the 2023 deer season.
One fatality occurred when a hunter fell 15 feet from a ladder stand. The second involved a hunter

After more than seven years, Illinois residents who placed deposits for the state’s Monarch Butterfly Specialty License Plate can finally redeem it, according to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.
The Monarch Butterfly License

Paul Sereda, of Coal Valley, Ill., has been hunting this property for around 10 years and had never harvested a buck like this. He hunts a small parcel in Rock Island County where most of
An elk first spotted near Coulterville in southern Illinois was spotted again at Sangchris Lake – nearly 120 miles away.
Wild elk were extirpated from Illinois in the 1800s. According to media reports, hunters began

Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 262 wild turkeys during the 2023 fall firearm turkey season, which ran Oct. 21-29.

They are the kind of numbers that have long made the state’s hunters bristle: 220 in Jo Daviess County, 174 in Carroll County, 171 in Grundy County, and 166 in Stephenson County.
Those are

If you somehow lured 100 Illinois deer hunters into a room, it’s a pretty safe bet to assume 74 of them hunt with some kind of bow – for at least part of the season.<br

The Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation recently filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This comes after the USFWS did not respond to dual petitions filed by the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation
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