
Illinois Letters to the Editor: To keep balance in state’s deer, turn to hunters to control herd
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Participating hunters will be provided access to sections of the recreation area otherwise closed to archery deer hunting. Adult and youth hunters with less than three years of deer hunting experience and who have not

A bowhunter in Wayne County, Ill., apparently fell asleep in his treestand Nov. 10 and fell to the ground. According to DNR, the hunter, who was not wearing a safety harness, was air-lifted to a

His history with the deer includes a missed shot, a long period of “ghosting” and tons of evidence suggesting that even celebrities can turn camera shy.
Kelton Ryan on Nov. 10 finally harvested the

Adam Carlson caught a fine photo of October’s comet, the Tsuchinshan-Atlas, named for the Chinese and South African observatories that first spotted it. This space rock from the outer reaches of our solar system passed

I was set up in my hunting saddle on a crisp Nov. 4 morning as a light wind blew my scent over the river from a tree that was overlooking a funnel between bedding areas.

There’s really nothing like the terror associated with falling through the ice and into dangerously cold water.
Anyone who’s survived the scenario can recall it in vivid detail even years later. Some of them

In life, patience is a virtue. In hunting, it’s often a necessity.
Deer hunters know this. Waterfowl hunters do, too. For some reason, a lot of pheasant hunters have missed the memo. This costs

Flying drones to recover wounded deer, tapping artificial intelligence to efficiently review hunting regulations and cruising e-bikes to quickly access hunting sites and treestands.
There might be more hi-tech options in an Illinois hunter’s
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