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Study shows 72% of Illinois wetlands not protected by the federal Clean Water Act
Illinois once harbored more than 8 million acres of wetlands. By the 1980s, all but 1.2 million wetland acres had been lost, filled in for development or drained to make way for agriculture.
Now,
New York Conservation Council passes eight resolutions at group’s annual fall convention
The New York State Conservation Council held its annual fall convention Sept. 5-7 at the Great Camp Sagamore, in Hamilton County. An email to members following the event highlighted the fact that eight of nine
Sun, heat greet hunters, but ducks were plentiful in some areas of Minnesota on opener
Opening weekend of the 2025 Minnesota duck season had a little bit of everything for the state’s roughly 50,000 waterfowl hunters.
Lots of blue sky. Unseasonably warm morning weather that turned into balmy, summer-like
Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Hunting too close to another dove hunter
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the Oct. 3, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.
Meetings on CWD preclude testing effort in Illinois
The final Illinois DNR information meeting on the state’s CWD situation is scheduled to be held Oct. 2 in Adams County. Which means deer hunters who attended one of the 10 gatherings have a better
Illinois Mixed Bag: Trapping permit drawing for nine sites scheduled
DNR will conduct a public drawing for the allocation of trapping permits for nine different state locations on Oct. 11 at Siloam Springs State Park in Adams County.
Ralph Loos: As Southern Illinois ‘Wildlife Lab’ turns 75, quail interview remains most memorable
John Roseberry led me into a nondescript office, handed me a coffee, pointed to a chair and somehow managed to lasso and lock down my attention for exactly 5 hours and 47 minutes. Seven coffees
Need extreme taxidermy fix? Go visit Wisconsin’s John Balfanz
John Balfanz’s rural Prairie du Sac home in Wisconsin is filled from top to bottom with “entaxied” animal mounts. There are shoulder and euro mounts of white-tailed deer. There are turkey tailfeathers and beards. There
Fall walleye bootcamp, Part 1: locations and hotspots – video
A video series designed to help you put more walleye in the boat this fall. Step one is all about location.
