While the weather is still on the warm side and the foliage is still thick, nearly all the bucks that hunters will be chasing this fall have shed their velvet and are easily identifiable as
We all live in the past because it’s one of the few things we’re truly confident in – good or bad, sweet or sour, we can give the past a solid thumbs up or thumbs
In the mid-1970s, a pair of southern Illinois men with an interest in duck hunting and conservation shared a common thought: would it be possible to start our own Ducks Unlimited chapter?
Much discussion
There are some lakes you visit because you want to catch fish, and there are others where you go because you never quite know what might be tugging on the other end of the line.<br
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Illinois published in the Sept. 18, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the Sept. 18, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to suspend a commercial logging project in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest, finding that the 2024 approval of the project under President Joe Biden violated the
The typical late-summer reporting of EHD in the Illinois deer herd came from an unusual place this year – a mostly residential neighborhood near the Fox River in Kane County.
Two confirmed cases in
Construction has resumed on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project on the Des Plaines River in Illinois, ending a weeks-long work stoppage on the massive effort to prevent invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan.
The
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