
Gretchen Steele: In southern Illinois’ outdoors, April lies
Easter has just passed through, we’ve been eating big grey morels for a good week, and even the big sought-after yellows were found by a few in the last few days. Lilacs are blooming.
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Easter has just passed through, we’ve been eating big grey morels for a good week, and even the big sought-after yellows were found by a few in the last few days. Lilacs are blooming.

Bird-related: Reading the Metro tabloid on the London Underground, I learned that the UK is reestablishing common cranes. Through conservation efforts like the Great Crane Project and natural recolonization, the population reached 87 breeding pairs

Twenty-one lake sturgeon raised at the Quad Cities Nuclear Station fish hatchery were released into the Illinois River at Starved Rock State Park on March 27.
This was a research project collaboratively conducted by

When Gov. Julius P. Heil worked to oust Wisconsin Conservation Department Director Harlan “H. W.” MacKenzie in early 1942, much to the dismay of MacKenzie’s many supporters, he unwittingly set in motion the ascension of

Laurel Caverns – Pennsylvania’s newest, and only underground, state park – opens to the public on Earth Day April 22.
Located in Forbes State Forest in Fayette County, the 426-acre park is centered around

Minnesota DNR Conservation Officer Annette Schlag is recovering after rescuers airlifted her from a remote area in southeastern Minnesota.
Schlag fell 20 feet while attempting to remove an illegal deer stand and was unable
A juvenile gray whale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river was found dead, and an official with a marine mammal research group suspects hunger may have driven

Celebrated mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died. He was 97.
Whittaker, who also served as the first full-time employee of the outdoor retailer REI and later as its

The Minnesota BHA Chapter is hosting its 2026 Turkey & Trout Classic on May 1-3 at Rock Lake Campground in Pillsbury State Forest (near Nisswa). It’s three days of turkey hunting, trout fishing, communal cookouts,
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