
Bobcat harvest climbs during 2023-24 season in Illinois
Hunters topped the 200 mark for the first time and teamed with trappers to register the largest bobcat harvest since DNR opened the season in 2016.
In all, 389 bobcats were taken during the

Hunters topped the 200 mark for the first time and teamed with trappers to register the largest bobcat harvest since DNR opened the season in 2016.
In all, 389 bobcats were taken during the

Crappie anglers finding hot bites up and down state. A look at the Illinois fishing report on March 16, 2024.

Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them.
For example, leaves fall from trees, enter

Puppies are a lot of work.
While we romanticize about the prospect of a new recruit, we often overlook the reality of adding a four-legged dependent to the family. We daydream of future days

Located just below Orion’s belt in the familiar constellation named by the ancient Greeks is a region of dust and gas where stars are forming. It falls within a grouping of stars often referred to

Growing up deer hunting during the shotgun season in southern Minnesota, I learned there was a general mindset about hunting deer-bedding areas: Just don’t do it. You’ll chase deer from a property.
Honestly, doing

Jordan Hartman joined the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Collaborative Conservation Genomics Laboratory on Jan. 1 as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr. Mark Davis. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Missouri

The barred owl “shock” call is a good choice when trying to strike up a bird or roost a gobbler for the next morning’s hunt. This locator tactic also works well during other times, especially

As the morning mist began to clear, a tom hammered from his roost. Perched on a large hackberry tree limb in a finger of woods running up into a cut cornfield, the big bird was
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