
Are management hunts in city parks the answer to wild game population issues?
Constant vigilance needed to keep geese, deer from overtaking city parks, ball fields.

Constant vigilance needed to keep geese, deer from overtaking city parks, ball fields.

Habitat concerns loom large in latest roadside survey report; 2017 pheasant index is 32 percent below the 10-year average and 62 percent below the long-term average.

The proposed ban is one of numerous measures intended to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease.

Illinois counties with chronic wasting disease now stands at 17.

FWP director: “It is critical to be careful, and be safe.”

But state wildlife biologist says he expects almost a repeat of 2016 pheasant season, where hunters harvested about 250,000 roosters.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal grand jury has indicted three men on charges connected to illegal hunting in an Alaska national park. The indictment names 44-year-old Jeffrey Harris of Poulsbo (PAWLS-boh), Washington, 72-year-old Dale Lackner,

Five of the once-in-a-lifetime licenses available, three fewer than last year, after summer survey finds 83 rams in the western Badlands, 21 fewer than in 2016.

LENA, Ill. — The Illinois DNR has scheduled a series of public meetings to provide information about chronic wasting disease (CWD), its effect on future deer populations, and IDNR’s efforts to control the disease. IDNR
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