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
Channel cats, redear sunfish, and rainbow trout have been the focus of DNR stockings at Beaver Dam Lake the past five years – evidence of what anglers are looking for when they visit the cozy
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the April 17, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the April 17, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
The Forest Preserve District of Will County’s first acquisition of 2026 not only expands the District’s oldest preserve, it also pushes total acreage past the 24,000 mark.
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