Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
July 23, 2024
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the July 26, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
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Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Unlawful use of limb lines in Coles County
Staff Report
July 23, 2024
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police CPOs. These reports are from the July 26, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Indiana research looks at hunting’s effect on deer-vehicle collisions
Tim Bunton
July 23, 2024
Illinois DNR has long used deer–vehicle collision statistics as the basis for making management decisions regarding the state’s deer hunting seasons.
A new study by Purdue University in neighboring Indiana suggests recreational hunting of
With agreement signed, carp project to protect Lake Michigan ready for first stage
Anthony Candia
July 23, 2024
The Brandon Road Interbasin project will install a complex series of innovative deterrents at the site to prevent upstream movement of carp and other aquatic nuisance species on the Illinois Waterway – a system of
The once-endangered osprey has ‘increased dramatically’ in Illinois
Nara Schoenberg / Chicago Tribune
July 22, 2024
Wildlife biologist Chuck Rizzo climbs into the bucket of an aerial lift truck in an otherwise ordinary Cook County, Ill., forest preserve and rises to his destination: a sturdy, stick-strewn platform built on top of
Illinois Mixed Bag: Contact with raccoons blamed for illness
Staff and News Reports
July 22, 2024
DNR and the Illinois Department of Public Health are working with public health authorities in Rock Island and Iowa to investigate an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, a gastrointestinal disease, in persons helping at a Rock Island
Bear sightings confirmed at southern sites in Illinois
Staff Report
July 22, 2024
The confirmed sighting came a week after Carrier Mills Chief of Police Scott Isaacs alerted the public of confirmed sightings of a black bear in that village. DNR was contacted and DNR Conservation Police Officer
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Let’s expand muzzleloader hunt
Illinois Letters To The Editor
July 22, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 26, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Ralph Loos: Significant wild turkey research makes its way to states that include Illinois, Iowa
Ralph Loos
July 22, 2024
There are plenty of good reasons I became a journalist instead of a biologist, engineer or chemist – and I am reminded of those reasons each time I stumble across a phrase like, “spatiotemporal variation
