
New director takes wheel to steer Illinois DNR
The Illinois DNR’s ship has bobbed and weaved and pitched over the past two decades, but it has managed to stay afloat.
Now the agency has a new captain in charge of keeping it
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The Illinois DNR’s ship has bobbed and weaved and pitched over the past two decades, but it has managed to stay afloat.
Now the agency has a new captain in charge of keeping it

Boaters on Lake of the Woods may have noticed something unusual bobbing on the water this summer: orange buoys marking the ends of 300-foot gillnets, four to a site, part of a Minnesota DNR effort

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently announced a $25 per deer increase to the reimbursement rate for meat processors who help with Wisconsin’s deer donation program.
Those processors will now be paid $125

Deer in southeastern Wisconsin are suffering the state’s worst outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) since this viral disease first appeared in 2002, with nearly 900 whitetails likely dead as of early September.
Confirmed

While initial rhetoric attached to the latest executive order by President Trump made it sound like wolves will be removed from Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection, his comment to a rancher who had suffered losses,

More than 120,000 brown trout eventually destined for Lake Superior will soon settle into their new over-winter home at Wisconsin’s St. Croix Falls State Fish Hatchery, thanks to the efforts – and wallets – of

For what is a long list of reasons, Canadians have slowed their visitation to the Empire State – be it for shopping, vacationing, fishing, camping, and general tourism activities. The state already knew about the

Black bear hunting is about to get underway in New York, and it will only intensify as the month goes on. An early firearms season in a number of southeastern New York Region 3 and

After a record-setting year for archery harvests in 2025, Minnesota’s 2026 season is gearing up to be another strong one given the favorable winter that boosted the state’s deer population.
Paul Burr, deer coordinator
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