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DNR Director talks budget cuts

DNR director raises red flags on agency’s budget DNR Director Marc Miller sounded an alarm that should be unsettling to the state’s hunters, anglers and fans of Illinois state parks. The agency’s budget is taking

Of cougars and wolves: nature trumps data any day….

Aside from the whitetail, one of my favorite things to learn and collect ever-changing statistics about is the apex predators of North America, especially since two of them seem to be gaining more and more

Outdoor Hall of Fame Announces 2012 class

The Illinois Conservation Foundation has announced four new inductees that will make up the 2012 class of the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame. Chauncey Niziol, of Westchester, the late Casimir “Cass” Sliwa, of Chicago, Warren

Youngster rips state fish record

The 15-year-old freshman at Rockford Auburn High had been curled up on the floor of his father’s 1973 14-foot Starcraft after a morning of fishing on the Pecatonica River on Jan. 7.

Some lakes finally getting ice; crappie bite holding tight

The fishing and hunting report is compiled using reports from conservation officers, hunting guides and fishing guides. North Lake Michigan: The harbors have some ice starting to form, but there are still patches of open

Gray wolves not likely to howl across Illinois

There have been unverified sightings of wolves in northern Illinois over the years since the population was entirely wiped out in 1860, including a handful in 2011. But it’s unlikely the gray wolf will make

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