“What came through in all of that management work was the absolute dedication of our site superintendents and their ingenuity for the bailing wire and duck tape in keeping the equipment running to get through a season or a particular task.”
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The IDNR has a difficult job and one outdoors folks want to help with. I hope we see more conversations, cooperation and involvement from all groups.
Although Southern Illinois was in a frozen state just two weeks ago, it won’t be long until spring reawakens the world of snakes and amphibians.
Fifteen historic Illinois sites have been added to the National Register of Historic Places, including a Chicago movie palace built in 1929, a tuberculosis sanatorium and a rural garden cemetery founded in the 1830s.
Nothing saddens me more than to see the angling community, which supported the IDNR for years, have that organization turn its back on that same community for a few extra dollars.
The way to mess up a good thing in fishing is to establish a new set of guidelines that make it unaffordable. The new tournament fee and tax from the IDNR did just that.
The way to mess up a good thing in fishing is to establish a new set of guidelines that make it unaffordable. The new tournament fee and tax from the IDNR did just that.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is now charging $25 for a fishing tournament permits and 10% of revenue for tournaments with more than 20 participants.
Within a matter of weeks, the people of the small village of Macedonia have seen fire, the release of toxic extinguishing foam, devastating en…
As part of the Youth Hunt, hunters age 17 or younger may hunt ducks, geese, coots and mergansers as long as they are accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will run 16 hunting sites and 2 additional sites will be jointly run by the department and a private company.
Conservation police said it is likely that all the sightings are of the same young, male black bear traveling through the area.
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Hoping to meet lofty goals to reduce nutrient runoff into the state's waterways, Illinois lawmakers have increased funding toward conservation programs and, for the first time, dedicated funds to the state's Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy.
Located south of Waterloo, Illinois Caverns was closed in 2010 as a precaution against the spread of White-nose Syndrome, a fatal disease that affects certain types of bats.
A cave system in southern Illinois closed more than a decade ago will reopen to the public this month.
As Illinois begins its official reopening and residents flock to state parks this summer, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources faces a severe staffing shortage, according to IDNR chief of staff Kristin DiCenso.
As Illinois prepares to step into a full reopening Friday, state officials reflected on their agencies’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, in…
About 100 children ages 5 to 12 years old tried their luck at pulling out a range of fish from Miller Park Lake on Saturday during the Kid's F…
Ever eat a corn dog on a stick at the restaurant where it was invented, then drive 45 minutes north to visit a 19-foot-tall fiberglass statue of Paul Bunyan holding a hot dog?
SPRINGFIELD — Federal and state land managers have signed an agreement to cooperate on caring for vast forest lands in Illinois.
The agreement signed this past week was between the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.
Michigan, Illinois and a federal agency have agreed on funding the next phase of an initiative to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes by strengthening defenses on a Chicago-area waterway.
State Rep. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, called the state's decision not to host this year's Grand American World Trapshooting Championships in Sparta a “$30 million kick in the gut” for Southern Illinois.
Something is dreadfully wrong with our system of government if Williamson Energy’s Pond Creek Mine is ever granted a permit to dump up to 3.5 …
A 20-year-old from Pinckneyville who law enforcement officials believe is the man seen in a video violently kicking an injured fawn was arrested Friday on animal cruelty charges.