Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- 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...
- New York’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the May 2, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post New York’s Outdoor Calendar ap...