Hunting News
Before 2024
- Illinois hunter takes unusual piebald deer in Rock Island CountyPaul Sereda, of Coal Valley, Ill., has been hunting this property for around 10 years and had never harvested a buck like this. He hunts a small parcel in Rock ...
- Remembering Mike Jackson, a ‘one of a kind’ angler, communicator in IllinoisBuffalo Grove’s Orrin Brand has passed away at the age of 79. Illinois fishermen are more familiar with the other name that Brand used – Mike Jackson. Jacks...
- Illinois hunters report elk wandering across stateAn elk first spotted near Coulterville in southern Illinois was spotted again at Sangchris Lake – nearly 120 miles away. Wild elk were extirpated from Illinoi...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: Fall turkey hunters take 262 birdsHunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 262 wild turkeys during the 2023 fall firearm turkey season, which ran Oct. 21-29. The post Illin...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: It’s not broken, so leave state’s turkey season just as it standsReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: It’s not brok...
- Illinois fishing organization in limbo after decades of good workIn an example of Illinois getting in the way of Illinois, one of the state’s most effective and productive fishing organizations may disband in the coming yea...
- Sharpshooting may need ‘retooling’ to fight CWD in IllinoisThey are the kind of numbers that have long made the state’s hunters bristle: 220 in Jo Daviess County, 174 in Carroll County, 171 in Grundy County, and 166 i...
- Illinois again on top among percentage of deer hunters who use archery equipmentIf you somehow lured 100 Illinois deer hunters into a room, it’s a pretty safe bet to assume 74 of them hunt with some kind of bow – for at least part of th...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report for Nov. 28, 2023Panfish biting hard in late fall patterns, walleyes slow. A look at the fishing report from across Illinois on Nov. 28, 2023. The post Illinois’ statewide fis...
- Woods and waters: Trail-less tracts beckon to the mobile, boots-on-the-ground hunter in New York’s Catlin State ForestIt’s not the biggest state forest in the Southern Tier, but 613 acres of hunting land shouldn’t be overlooked, and that’s what the Catlin State Forest in ...
- New York’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across New York published in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York’s Outdoor Ca...
- New York Cuffs & Collars: Hunters busted for taking deer over baitField reports from New York DEC Officers published in the Dec. 1, 2023, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Cuffs & Collars: Hunters busted for ...
- Landowners preventing public access to the Pecos River in New MexicoNew Mexico’s top prosecutor is going after landowners who he says are illegally and unconstitutionally depriving the public of access to stretches of one of t...
- New York’s SUNY ESF appoints Dr. Joshua Millspaugh as Camp Fire Conservation Fund professorSyracuse, N.Y. — The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) reports it is honored to continue its relationship with the Camp Fire Conservati...
- New York Mixed Bag: Spillway work will affect fishing at New Albion Lake in Cattaraugus CountyThe work began Nov. 13, and water levels in New Albion Lake was temporarily reduced by 2 to 4 feet to accommodate routine maintenance work on the lake’s spill...