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Fishing for spring and summer walleyes with versatile lures: crankbaits
Your crankbaiting priority for walleyes should run as follows: depth, vibration, speed, color, and sound

Calf abandonment and Minnesota high school clay target shooters
Mother moose abandoning their calves in northeastern Minnesota remains an issue as biologists try to determine what’s causing the population decline; and high school clay target shooters compete in the championship and state tournament of

Pennsylvania hunter-conservationists stepping up for wildlife
Support groups like Ducks Unlimited for the good of sport

Bass are in ‘good old days’
Science and opinions considered evenly, it’s quite possible Illinois is smack in the middle of a Micropterus salmoides renaissance.

Dove hunting suffering from generational gap
A “handing down” of the state’s dove hunting heritage doesn’t appear to be taking hold, as hunter effort and subsequent harvests continue steady declines.
Links from Illinois Outdoor News, Issue 12
Dove hunt study results can be seen here.

Thanks to deer popularity, hunting land remains hot
Deer hunting continues to drive demand for hunting property in Illinois.
Illinois Cuffs & Collars – June 13th, 2014
Region I While checking fishermen at Hennepin Canal State Park, a CPO located four subjects fishing along the Rock River. Approaching the subjects, the CPO could smell burning cannabis. One subject was arrested for the

Buck-only for 19 forest deer units
Deer hunters in forested areas of the state didn’t have any trouble convincing DNR wildlife biologists – and Natural Resources Board members – that something had to be done to increase deer numbers in the