Opinions
Blaze orange makes a difference
Non-hunters I happen across wonder about the danger of the sport. I usually mention something like it’s more dangerous driving to the hunting site than it is when I take to the woods. They look
Wolf hunting and trapping
I was in Madison Jan. 25 for the Natural Resources Board and heard, from two different directions, that a legislator, or more likely it will be legislators, is going to introduce a bill Jan. 30
Wolf Season
A bill introduced on Friday, Jan. 27 would create a 41/2-month wolf season that would allow the use of all firearms and bows, foot-hold traps and cable restraints, trailing hounds, a $99.25 resident license, free
Crossbow Bill
Anyone who is tracking the progress of Assembly Bill 384, known generally as the crossbow bill, might want to know that the bill is scheduled for executive session by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee on
Madison finally has ice!
I was in Madison Jan. 25 for the Natural Resources Board and then stayed over one more day to follow up on some other stories. While bouncing around the city on Jan. 26, I happened
Game commissioners open working group meetings to public, news media
Shortly after Game Commissioner Ralph Martone of New Castle took the gavel at the agency’s winter meeting in Harrisburg — becoming the board’s new president — he made an historic announcement. The commissioners’ working group
Add a bead for winter crappies and bluegills
When using a bobber for ice panfish, consider adding one 3- to 4-mm bead. For crappies and bluegills, put the bead on the line, then tie the hook on, so the bead slides up and
Conservation grab bag: Bad BWSR idea, and a fellow trout angler passes
A proposal emerged last week to combine the Board of Water and Soil Resources with the state Department of Agriculture. Bad idea. As Joe Albert reports in the Jan. 27 Outdoor News (and this website)
Outdoor Hall of Fame Announces 2012 class
The Illinois Conservation Foundation has announced four new inductees that will make up the 2012 class of the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame. Chauncey Niziol, of Westchester, the late Casimir “Cass” Sliwa, of Chicago, Warren
