
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Time for DNR, all hunters to help manage our deer herd
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 14, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 14, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

Illinois has gone ahead and gotten itself into the beauty pageant business, which is what the “I Love My State Park” campaign really sort of is.
According to DNR and the Illinois Conservation Foundation,

The training never ends.
This sentiment is popular in the pro dog-training world, and most bird dog owners would probably agree in principle. After all, it’s kind of like target practice with your favorite

Despite the difficulty people have spotting bobcats in Illinois’ wilderness, DNR relied on sightings by the public to document the predator’s expansion in the state.
This intriguing point was made in a recent study

Efforts to monitor black carp in Illinois rivers continue to strengthen, with a bounty program that pays anglers for catches remaining in place and the species receiving increased emphasis in the federal Invasive Carp Action

As she did with the first five turkeys she shot in her hunting career, Jennifer Cheely grabbed the freshly-harvested Edgar County tom and threw it over her shoulder.
That’s what first made her go

Fishermen finding more bass as summer water nears. A look at the Illinois fishing report from across the state on June 8, 2024.

The population of ground-nesting birds is steadily decreasing. In North America, we have hundreds of bird species that nest on the ground. Prairie birds such as Eastern and Western meadowlarks are good examples. If you

Here’s a trivia question to consider: What is the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy? Scientists say that the glowing ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of our solar system is technically
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