
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Let deer managers manage and the deer hunters do the hunting
Reader-submitted letters to the editor from the May 5, 2023 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor from the May 5, 2023 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

During the recently-completed hunt, which covered two weekends, youth hunters harvested a total of 1,309 birds. That was up slightly from 2022, when 1,258 turkeys were taken. The record total was set in 2020, when
A mix of outdoor-related stories from across Illinois published in the May 5, 2023 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
The McHenry County Conservation Foundation contributed $15,000 to a joint partnership project to propagate and increase the number of juvenile elktoe mussel in Nippersink Creek and its tributaries.

America’s endangered river dinosaurs are making a comeback – specifically in a section of the Mississippi River that separates Illinois from Missouri.
Lake sturgeon, a prehistoric fish once on the brink of extinction, spawned

The World Shooting and Recreation Complex in Sparta, Ill. moved another step closer to being put up for sale, as an amended version of House Bill 3456 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 26
Outdoor news stories from beyond Illinois published in the May 5, 2023 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

With a little spare time to kill, it’s not a bad time to read the State of Illinois Fishing Regulation guide that is published every year. There are not a lot of changes each year,

Each spring and fall, 30-pound birds that can sometimes be described as “odd looking” migrate through parts of Illinois, stopping on rivers and lakes to rest and feed. The numbers have grown in recent years
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