Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the Aug. 21, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
Before bulldozers begin moving dirt for future road and bridge projects in Southern Illinois, researchers will be looking for some of the region’s most vulnerable wildlife.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the Illinois Department
Illinois DNR reminded upland game hunters that application deadlines are approaching for the 2026 free upland game hunting permit lottery and the controlled pheasant hunting program.
Illinois deer hunters have increasingly turned to crossbows during the past decade, a trend reflected in DNR’s 2025-26 archery harvest data.
Crossbows accounted for 54% of the archery deer harvest in 2025, according to
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 21, 2026 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
My house was quiet. The kind of quiet that screams something is terribly wrong.
I walked into my rental at high noon ready to eat lunch and instead got a belly full of high
The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule Tuesday to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule nationwide, a policy shift that would reopen nearly 45 million acres of national forest land to road construction
The tact I like to take in this job is to always assume I’m the dumbest guy in the room, and 10 times out of nine I’m pretty spot on about that. Such an approach
There are some birds that seem almost too improbable to be real.
The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is one of them. With a wingspan stretching nearly 9 feet and a bill that’s absurdly
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