What is typically is a month of furious crappie and bass fishing for southern Illinois’s largest lake got off to a slow start due to early April rains.
Rend Lake officially crested at 413.67,
Jon Duyvejonck, chairman of the 700-member Eagle View Group of the Sierra Club, worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for 12 years, then 25 years for the Moline-based U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the April 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
The Illinois DNR’s annual reminder to leave baby birds and young animals alone as spring settles in across the state also serves as a reminder about a specific animal currently active and showing up in
Youth age 10 and older and adults can register online now for the introductory wingshooting clinic scheduled for May 3-4 at Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area in DeKalb County.
Have an opinion about the Illinois waterfowl seasons or the hunting zones? Maybe there’s something on your mind only a biologist could answer.
DNR wants you to show up and share opinions and questions.
Illinois DNR has announced that CWD was detected in Putnam, Marshall, Adams, and Peoria counties, expanding the number of counties the disease has infected deer.
Adams County is the first documented case recorded outside
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
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