Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Improper tagging of whitetails in Fayette CountyIllinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Illinois CPOs. These reports are from the May 2, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Illinois Cuffs & Coll...
- Migration of monarch butterflies hits IllinoisAfter stalling in Oklahoma in early April as they waited for milkweed to emerge, the butterflies have now crossed into Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, according...
- Camera capture of Pike County mountain lion confirmed by Illinois DNRIllinois DNR has confirmed a mountain lion sighting by a turkey hunter searching his trail camera for turkey action in Pike County. Photos and video clips from ...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: Fish salvage declaration at Little Grassy LakeIllinois DNR issued a fish salvage declaration for Little Grassy Lake in response to rehabilitation plans for the Little Grassy Lake dam and spillway. Salvage m...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: Time to create dedicated funding for hunting and fishingReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 2, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: Time to create d...
- Ralph Loos: Be it a fox, a rabbit, a fish or a bird, tracking for research makes for ‘a good day’Two of the most enjoyable days of my career involved topics covered in a pair of stories that appear in this issue of Illinois Outdoor News. The article about t...
- Illinois research looks deep into how social lives of deer spread diseaseWildlife researchers at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale are using cameras and videos to take a closer look at how deer socialize to better understand ho...
- Lake Michigan coast focus of Prairie Research Institute researchPrairie Research Institute scientists are conducting a $2.3 million project to support the protection and restoration of part of the Illinois Beach State Park c...
- New York’s 2025 Great Lakes Preview: Lake Erie and it’s tributaries are a year-round fishing bonanzaLake Erie stands tall among the angling community. While it is the smallest of the Great Lakes in total water volume, it’s large number of fish populations he...
- MN Daily Update: Remembering outdoor writer Scott BestulSoutheast Minnesota-based outdoors writer and regular Outdoor News contributor Scott Bestul, age 64, died Saturday morning, April 19. Listen here for more ...
- Uninterested hen leads gobbler to a waiting hunterFrom nearly a half-mile away, I spotted two black dots on a bend in the farm road. I blinked and they were still there, so I raised my binocular and confirmed t...
- WI Daily Update: Remembering outdoor writer Scott BestulSoutheast Minnesota-based outdoors writer and regular Outdoor News contributor Scott Bestul, age 64, died Saturday morning, April 19. Listen here for more about...
- Wisconsin’s Sturgeon Guard back to work with spawning underwaySporting a fluorescent green Sturgeon For Tomorrow vest, Tom Markowski and Mike Schmalzer stood out like sore thumbs as lake sturgeon cruised the Fox River in d...
- Lotteries open for moose, elk hunts in eastern statesBig game hunters annually look to hit the jackpot – and every year a few do. Maybe even someone you know. And this year, it could even be you. Not the Mega Mi...
- Artist Lake: fishing a popular puddle on Long IslandIt’s actually labeled a kettlehole lake, the product of melting chunks of partially buried glacial ice a long, long, long, time ago. There is no inlet or outl...