Hunting News
Earlier this week
- With agreement signed, carp project to protect Lake Michigan ready for first stageThe Brandon Road Interbasin project will install a complex series of innovative deterrents at the site to prevent upstream movement of carp and other aquatic nu...
- The once-endangered osprey has ‘increased dramatically’ in IllinoisWildlife 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 desti...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: Contact with raccoons blamed for illnessDNR and the Illinois Department of Public Health are working with public health authorities in Rock Island and Iowa to investigate an outbreak of cryptosporidio...
- Bear sightings confirmed at southern sites in IllinoisThe 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. D...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: Let’s expand muzzleloader huntReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 26, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: Let’s expand...
- Ralph Loos: Significant wild turkey research makes its way to states that include Illinois, IowaThere 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 ac...
- New York’s Hall Island State Forest sits tight to a fishing hot-spotHall Island State Forest in Oswego County offers everything you might expect in a 2,079-acre tract: hunting, trapping, snowmobiling, bird watching, hiking, and ...
- New York’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the July 26, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York’s Outdoor ...
- New York Cuffs & Collars: Rattlesnake makes its way into common area of hotelNew York cuffs and collars are field reports from DEC Officers. These reports are from the July 26, 2024, edition of Outdoor News. The post New York Cuffs & Col...
- New state-record largemouth caught from Cayuga Lake certified by New York DECNew York’s Cayuga Lake has a concrete reputation for great bass fishing. In the 2024 Bassmaster Magazine 100 Best Bass Lakes, this Finger Lake ranked No. 8 fo...
- Ammo vending machines debut in grocery storesA company has installed computerized vending machines to sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas, allowing patrons to pick up bullets a...
- Big fish caught from Lake Erie during Southtowns Walleye Association’s 40th derby in New YorkIt was a case of a “rocking” atmosphere, both literally and figuratively, as the Southtowns Walleye Association of Western New York held its 40th Annual Wal...
- New York DEC, State Parks outline 30×30 proposed strategiesThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) have released a proposed...
- Raquette River, Follensby Pond easements announced, opening up outdoor recreation opportunities in New YorkThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and The Nature Conservancy in New York recently announced the state’s acquisition of two conservat...
- Report: U.S. hunting license sales for 2022-23 reflect slight declineThe Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports in collaboration with Southwick Associates recently released its annual report on hunting license sales, ...