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- Trout stocking in northeast Iowa streams starts March 31The popular trout stream stocking season starts on March 31 in Iowa. The DNR Trout Program offers Iowa anglers a variety of trout fishing opportunities, i...
- ‘Community grants’ are target of Minnesota House bill’s Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund changeIn 2023, the Minnesota Legislature decided to allocate 1.5% from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (lottery proceeds) to the DNR to oversee a com...
- Once a bright spot, new report finds ducks now declining along with many other bird species in the U.S.At least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years, according to a new report published late last week. Am...
- Ice-out channel catfish are biting in IowaChannel catfish move close to shore and are eager to bite in many lakes and large reservoirs across Iowa just after the ice is gone. The bite starts sooner in s...
- Iowa fishing educator earns Brass Bluegill Award from DNRBob Harris is the recipient of the 2024 Brass Bluegill award from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fish Iowa! program. Harris started a nonprofit organi...
- Hunting Ethics by Nick Fox – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 114youtu.be/VHE3xLhT2Uw Nick Fox has been working on this book all his life. The hunter, zoologist and falconer has brought out Hunting Ethics: A Personal Journey....
- Catfish continue to emerge in Lake Murphysboro from Jackson County, Ill.It’s rarely among the small group of Illinois lakes boasting about its big flathead catfish, but Lake Murphysboro may soon enjoy a day when catfishermen aroun...
- Illinois’ Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar ...
- Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Citations issued for trying to sell illegal snake, toads in Williamson CountyIllinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police CPOs. These reports are from the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Illinoi...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: Fall turkey hunters break harvest recordHunters in Illinois harvested a record 1,045 turkeys during the 2024-2025 fall archery turkey season. The total compares last year’s harvest of 803 and the fi...
- Wisconsin DNR says 750-acre wildfire in Green Lake County now 100% containedThe Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on Tuesday morning announced that a 750-acre Big Island Fire in the White River Marsh State Wildlife Area in...
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopens public comment period for monarch butterfly Endangered Species Act listing proposalThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the En...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: It’s time to make everyone pay for what we enjoy outdoorsReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 21, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: It’s time t...
- Ralph Loos: Boone and Crockett Club’s Big Game Awards an easy way to revisit hunting dreamsLike most everybody else who grew up a ruralist in the most rural part of rural Illinois, I spent a significant chunk of my childhood chasing rabbits and squirr...
- Queechy Lake: Stocked trout, and plenty of largemouths in New York’s Columbia CountyAnd the water quality and temperature – the lake has a maximum depth of 40 feet – allow some of the trout that survive the early-season fishing pressure to ...