Becky Blankenship had been searching throughout the Will County Forest Preserve District for smooth greensnake nests – with no luck. She found plenty of other snakes under the coverboards she uses to attract the snakes
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 5, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Keri Butt, who for many years wrote a deer hunting column for these pages – that is, until she went out and got herself a real job – liked to kick up debates with me
Fish smells gone wild and the baking August sun suddenly vanished when the unmistakable bill of a paddlefish surprisingly and seductively began bobbing up and down along the surface of Mississippi River Pool 20.
The 10th Illinois bobcat season won’t see the changes previous seasons have, but interest in securing one of the 2,000 hunting and trapping permits distributed by DNR is expected to remain high.
The application
Deer hunters in Illinois expecting a new high mark for confirmed CWD cases got what they expected from the DNR’s 2024-25 Surveillance and Management Report.
The report, released Aug. 22 and based on findings
Look for crappie bite to heat up as summer cools down. Here’s the Illinois fishing report across the state on Aug. 29, 2025.
Recently, I had the opportunity to go to Canada and do some fishing with my family. While we all dream of those magical adventures in the Northwoods, after a few days up there it became
I’ve mentioned before that I am the father of three grown children. I use “grown” to mask the fact that my kids are truly old enough to have kids of their own and probably should
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