Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
November 28, 2023
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Illinois published in the Dec. 3, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
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Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Subjects busted after shooting doves in driveway
Staff Report
November 28, 2023
Field reports from Illinois Conservation Police CPOs published in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
After long wait, Illinois license plate available to help monarch butterflies
Sean Crawford
November 28, 2023
After more than seven years, Illinois residents who placed deposits for the state’s Monarch Butterfly Specialty License Plate can finally redeem it, according to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.
The Monarch Butterfly License
Illinois hunter takes unusual piebald deer in Rock Island County
Jeremiah Haas
November 28, 2023
Paul Sereda, of Coal Valley, Ill., has been hunting this property for around 10 years and had never harvested a buck like this. He hunts a small parcel in Rock Island County where most of
Remembering Mike Jackson, a ‘one of a kind’ angler, communicator in Illinois
Steve Sarley
November 28, 2023
Buffalo Grove’s Orrin Brand has passed away at the age of 79. Illinois fishermen are more familiar with the other name that Brand used – Mike Jackson.
Jackson once told me that he elected
Illinois hunters report elk wandering across state
Staff Report
November 28, 2023
An elk first spotted near Coulterville in southern Illinois was spotted again at Sangchris Lake – nearly 120 miles away.
Wild elk were extirpated from Illinois in the 1800s. According to media reports, hunters began
Illinois Mixed Bag: Fall turkey hunters take 262 birds
Staff and News Reports
November 28, 2023
Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 262 wild turkeys during the 2023 fall firearm turkey season, which ran Oct. 21-29.
Illinois Letters to the Editor: It’s not broken, so leave state’s turkey season just as it stands
Illinois Letters To The Editor
November 28, 2023
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Illinois fishing organization in limbo after decades of good work
Ralph Loos
November 28, 2023
In an example of Illinois getting in the way of Illinois, one of the state’s most effective and productive fishing organizations may disband in the coming year. This after it spent 40 years helping DNR’s
