Hunting News
Before 2024
- Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Dog owner cited for hunting without permissionField reports from Illinois Conservation Police CPOs published in the Oct. 6, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Dog own...
- Panfish-Optimized Ice-Fishing CombosCollectively, crappie, bluegill, and perch are the most-targeted species through the ice. Their appeal extends to experienced anglers who crave the hunt for the...
- Measure allows hunters to house Duck Stamp on phonesConservation organizations and duck hunters applauded the Sept. 20 passage of the Duck Stamp Modernization Act (H.R. 2872) by the U.S. House of Representatives....
- Illinois discontinues testing of fish for some pesticide contaminantsIllinois is joining a growing list of states that will no longer test fish in lakes and rivers for DDT and other related pesticides. Illinois began testing fish...
- Language fixed to allow funding for hunter ed, archery in schools program, bill headed to Biden’s deskBoth chambers of congress rallied together in late September to fix language from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 that allowed the U.S. Department ...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: DNR has delays in early trout stockingThe 2023 Illinois fall trout season will open Oct. 21 at 59 ponds, lakes, and streams throughout the state, but DNR has warned anglers that warm weather will de...
- Three faces of October: Make the most of this sometimes-misunderstood month for whitetailsThe monster 8-point had clearly not read the calendar. He was destroying trees, hog-troughing scrapes, and badgering does like it was peak rut. Instead, it was ...
- A more frequent ‘spec’-tacle: White-fronted goose sightings on the rise in MinnesotaSteve Cordts has a plan, albeit a tentative one. In the rafters of his garage, stowed away in decoy bags, rest four dozen white-fronted goose shells, decoys tha...
- WI Daily Update: DNR announces its Warden of the Year for 2022The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently announced DNR Conservation Warden Lt. Bryan Lockman was awarded the Warden of the Year for 2022. Here is ...
- Pelican recovering from gunshot wound after being found on Wisconsin lakeAn American white pelican found with a gunshot wound on Lake Iola continues to recover at a wildlife rehabilitation facility in Antigo, Wis. Jonathan Kaiser, a ...
- Want advice on bowhunting elk? Don’t ask Dean BortzWanna know what I’m never going to do? Write a book about how to bowhunt for elk. It’s become fairly obvious that I don’t know how to bowhunt elk and I do...
- Small wetlands project enhances habitat of New York’s Montezuma Wetlands ComplexThe New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Ducks Unlimited, and other partners recently completed the re...
- Ohio Insider: More on the adventures of visiting all 75 of Ohio’s state parksIn the last issue in this space, I wrote about Jerry Tyree and his family’s adventure to visit all 75 of Ohio’s state parks. But, there was so much more to ...
- MN Daily Update: Five K9s helping conservation officers in the field this fallThe DNR has five K9 dogs across the state, and they’re trained in various categories including: zebra mussel detection, wildlife detection, evidence recovery,...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Reader feels pain of walnut escapadeReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 6, 2023, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Reader feels ...