The Illinois Public Hunting Areas Report: 2024-2025 Wildlife Harvest is now available. If you’re trying to narrow down public land sites you might want to hunt for specific species, this is a great place to start. Jason has a great short video on how.
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IDNR Releases 2025-2026 Illinois Digest of Hunting and Trapping Regulations
The 2025-2026 Illinois Digest of Hunting and Trapping Regulations has been released in English, Spanish and Polish, along with Quick Reference Cards in all three languages.
New Report on Trap Use, Furbearers Trapped, and Trapper Characteristics in the U.S.
A new report, Trap Use, Furbearers Trapped, and Trapper Characteristics in the United States in the 2023-2024 Seasons, has been released. It was conducted by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and Responsive Management under a multistate conservation grant.
Modern day Wildlife Management in North America may be the best story never told.
Modern day Wildlife Management in North America may be the best story never told. Sadly, most of us were never taught about wildlife management and conservation in our primary education. We can calculate angles of a triangle (if given a couple measurements) and we know when Columbus sailed the ocean blue but somehow wildlife and […]
Tick tock, tick season is coming. What you need to know.
By Jason Buckley and Dan Stephens Anyone who spends time outdoors has likely encountered ticks and has read about tick-borne illnesses. You likely wonder how prevalent ticks are across the state, what the risk is to humans of tick-borne illnesses, and what steps we can take to mitigate and prevent interactions with ticks. Today, we […]