Opinions
Commentary: Illinois’ DNR needs more of everything – including funding
Periodically, it’s important to sit back and reassess. A couple of conversations during the last few weeks got me thinking about the current state of affairs of the Illinois DNR.
As a young adult,
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Fewer wildlife? It’s a great time to evaluate your habitat
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 3, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
New York Letters to the Editor: No reason for ammunition purchases to be delayed
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 3, 2023, edition of New York Outdoor News.
Ammunition background checks in New York are not working
What do retired law enforcement officers, former judges, active Environmental Conservation Officers, border patrol agents and even the Sheriff of Chautauqua County all have in common? Well, since the Sept. 13 launch of New York’s
What a difference 9,000 days could make in Michigan’s Great Lakes fisheries with new consent decree
Things don’t usually change rapidly in the Great Lakes. Change takes weeks, months, decades or more.
Now it begins: The rut is just getting started
Just about all deer experts, both hunters and the science-based research variety, agree that the breeding between female and male whitetails can be broken down into three separate phases.
First is the “pre
Proposing a ‘Plan B’ for Pennsylvania’s fall trout stocking
I was present on a small mountain stream when the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s truck arrived for the creek’s scheduled fall stocking. The air was crisp and held that intoxicating autumn tang – a
Commentary: Time to re-examine the concept of fair chase
Most of us are familiar with “fair chase,” the honor code North American hunters have followed for roughly a century. Coined by the Boone and Crockett Club (BCC) in 1888, the concept describes an ethical
Pennsylvania’s new fish and game commissioner appointment process a fairer approach
For several years one thing has been missing from the process used to fill vacant seats on the Pennsylvania game and fish boards: fairness.
Typically, when a seat became vacant, the sitting commissioner
