Hunting
Christine Thomas: Luck is a lady in the turkey woods
I started the 2024 turkey season by taking a youth hunter out on the Saturday morning of the youth season. He had a truncated opportunity for hunting due to the first baseball practice of his
To the chagrin of waterfowlers, Canada geese becoming more suburban in Illinois
While hunters have been seeing fewer and fewer Canada geese from blinds along the state’s rivers in the fall, people living in Illinois cities and towns are noticing more and more of the birds –
Cool, wet weather does not dampen turkey hunting as Minnesotans blow past season ‘A’ harvest record
The spring wild turkey-hunting season in Minnesota is just two weeks old, but the DNR reports a record-setting pace of harvest following the mild 2023-24 winter.
Nate Huck, the DNR’s resident game bird specialist,
Mike Raykovicz: Thoughts on New York tree stand injuries, turkeys and bald eagles
It wasn’t too long ago state game agencies throughout the country didn’t track tree stand related accidents as “hunting” accidents or incidents. That changed in 2017 when Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos directed
Wisconsin DNR confirms first case of CWD in wild deer from Pierce County, baiting and feeding bans start May 15
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Pierce County. The deer was sick and dispatched in the town of Spring
Illinois Mixed Bag: Farm Bureau opposes DNR wetlands control
Illinois Farm Bureau has launched an action request asking members to contact their state senator to urge them to vote no on proposed legislation that could allow the Illinois DNR to regulate every size wetland
Morel hunters, turkey hunters find common (woods) ground
Two very different kinds of Illinois hunters are diverging in the woods right now in nearly every county.
What happens when morel hunters meet turkey hunters? Chaos, DNR warns.
Turkey season opened in early
Ralph Loos: Some readers not happy with story regarding hunter attitudes toward culling to combat CWD in Illinois
The thing about sticking your arm in the den of an angry raccoon is that you usually know you’re sticking your arm in the den of an angry raccoon. But you do it anyway.
A look inside the numbers as Illinois youth turkey hunters set new harvest record in 2024
Jase Corley wasted little time. The 10-year-old from St. Jacob shot a gobbler – his first ever turkey – on the morning of March 30, opening day of the 2024 Illinois youth season.
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