Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the July 11, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign identified two new species of crayfish in the Pacific Northwest.
Long mistaken for the Signal Crayfish, the two new species – the Okanagan Crayfish and the Misfortunate
Champaign, Ill. — A former research technician at the University of Illinois’ Sam Parr Biological Field Station received the Norman S. Baldwin Fishery Science Scholarship at the International Association for Great Lakes Research conference in
The experiment of feeding invasive carp to humans – Illinois DNR’s rebranding of the fish now known as “Copi” – continues to gain slow footing across the state and the rest of the country.
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 11, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
A lot of attention given to catfish in Illinois is focused inland – on the hundreds of lakes and farm ponds that hold channel cats, blue cats, and flatheads.
The Mississippi, Illinois, and Ohio
Sometimes the best scenes are the ones that flash by out the corner of your eye. Bob Hilbert was driving in a heavily forested area when he saw a dark lump in a roadside shrub.
The DNR has records going back to the mid-1970s that show more than 10,000 gray fox marketed each season by hunters and trappers across Illinois.
In 2024, that number was zero – not a
A southern Illinois hunting club that described itself as the top waterfowl harvesting commercial club over a 15-year stretch and claimed to hold the state record for Canada goose harvests has been ordered to close
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