Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Restoring Volo Bog in Illinois is vital, unique team taskAt Volo Bog State Natural Area, a hard-working, collaborative team of volunteers and staff recently embarked on a pioneering restoration of Illinois’ only ope...
- $65,000 offered for tip on wolf poaching incident in ColoradoConservation partners and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering rewards totaling more than $65,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions ...
- Illinois DNR sets ’25 youth rooster hunt, shooting clinic scheduleWingshooting clinics and pheasant hunts for youth ages 10 to 17 are scheduled at Pere Marquette State Park in Jersey County (March 1) and the World Shooting and...
- Discovery of spadefoot toad was work of Illinois, Syrian scientistsThe Syrian Spadefoot Toad has been rediscovered in the war-torn country with the help of Syrian community scientists and Illinois researchers. The finding is th...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: DNR biologists collecting Christmas treesDNR fisheries biologists are collecting live Christmas trees to be used as fish habitat in local lakes. The collected trees will be bundled together, weighted, ...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: Hunters should get up and walk instead of passive deer huntingReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 10, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: Hunters should...
- Ralph Loos: No gray foxes detected by Southern Illinois University project in 2024, furthering mysteryThis is certainly the least important thing we learned from a recent update on the Illinois Gray Fox Project, an ongoing effort by a Southern Illinois Universit...
- Ice or no ice, go fishing at Whitney Point Reservoir in New York’s Broome CountyTo some, the Whitney Point Reservoir is perhaps best known for an annual event that hasn’t really been annual at all in recent years. In fact, it’s called t...
- New York’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the Jan. 10, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post New York’s Outdoor Calendar ...
- New York Cuffs & Collars: Poacher isn’t quick to admit guiltNew York cuffs and collars are field reports from DEC Officers. These reports are from the Jan. 10, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post New York Cuffs & Col...
- New York’s ice fishing season gets off to an early start compared to last yearRay Connors took advantage of a day off from work Dec. 27 to plant some tip-ups on Brant Lake in northern Warren County, N.Y. With the ice only about 4 inches t...
- New York Mixed Bag: DEC completes annual whitefish egg collection from Cascade LakesThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 5 Fisheries staff last month completed their annual round whitefish egg take at beautiful...
- New York Letters to the Editor: Some crossbow hunters don’t really look all that disabledReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 10, 2025, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Letters to the Editor: Some crossbow ...
- Lake Puckaway fishery in good shape all the way around in Wisconsin’s Green Lake CountyAnglers looking for a 40-inch northern pike stand about as good of a chance of finding that fish in Lake Puckaway as any other inland water in the state. The lo...
- Wisconsin’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the Jan. 10, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calenda...