
How to kill a buck when the temperatures rise
Most bowhunters cross their fingers and pray to the deer gods that opening week will come with a nice cold front. This generally doesn’t work out too well. While the dreamy days of frosty mornings

Most bowhunters cross their fingers and pray to the deer gods that opening week will come with a nice cold front. This generally doesn’t work out too well. While the dreamy days of frosty mornings

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is calling for the immediate reversal of Secretarial Order 3442, signed earlier this month by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, which undermines the Land and Water Conservation Fund – America’s most successful

Most turkey hunters consider it a springtime game, when the longbeards are thundering on the roost and you’re calling them into shotgun range. Over the years an entire legion of obsessed gobbler pursuers has grown,

As the late September breeze carries the promise of the upcoming deer season, the anticipation is palpable in southern Illinois.
The golden hue of soybeans, the rhythmic fall of acorns, and the flickering trail

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Sept. 10 proposed canceling a public land-management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging,
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the Sept. 19, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.

Illinois waterfowlers got their first taste of a new duck season earlier this month with the brief teal season that ran Sept. 6-14.
Reports from hunters indicate there were plenty of opportunities to shoot

Regular anglers at Evergreen Lake are convinced the central Illinois body of water holds a new state record saugeye. The fact that the standing state record of 9.68 pounds was set in Evergreen 24 years

The Illinois DNR will accept sealed bids this fall for about 20 agricultural lease contracts for crop years 2026-2030.
DNR utilizes agricultural leases as a tool to support wildlife populations and recreational opportunities at
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