Hunting

Brandon S. Miller is accused of taking deer illegally in Ogle and Lee counties

Trap tags are used to identify trap owners trying to catch furbearers, which are wild animals typically hunted for their fur, and include beavers, badgers, foxes, minks and others.

The two-day event will take place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 7 and 8. Attendance is required both days.

Waterfowl hunters can mark their calendars for upcoming waterfowl blind drawings at several public hunting areas in Illinois, including Sterling.

The application period extends through July 31 and is open to residents and non-residents. All applications will be entered into a random drawing for 35 hunt sites on Aug. 8.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the drawing date for waterfowl hunting sites at Potter’s Marsh in Thomson.

A measure that would prohibit contests that award cash or prizes for killing certain wildlife is unlikely to clear the Illinois Senate after narrowly passing the House last week, according to its Senate sponsor

An Oregon bowhunter is facing multiple charges of poaching whitetail deer in Lee and Ogle counties, including one case in which he is accused of taking six deer from Lowell Park, a Dixon city park and nature preserve off-limits to hunters.

Two public meetings in Lee and Bureau counties will provide information about the recent detection of chronic wasting disease, its effect on free-ranging deer populations and IDNR’s efforts to control the disease.

More than 76,000 deer harvested during Illinois firearm deer season.

Twenty-seven hunters and their attendants harvested 15 deer that included six bucks and nine does.

The two-day event will take place Sept. 23 and 24 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reservations are required.

Ogle County had the state's second-highest harvest of wild turkeys.

The hunt was reserved for hunters with physical challenges, including those with paraplegia, missing limbs and other disabilities.

Reports after the first weekend of deer hunting with firearms shows decline in all four Sauk Valley counties.

A total of 129 deer were taken down in McHenry County compared to 181 over the same period in 2021 and 172 in 2020, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources reported.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources schedules informational sessions.

Hunters in Illinois harvested about 147,000 deer this season, with most of those numbers coming during the archery and firearm periods

IDNR program uses lottery to determine licenses for hunting on private land

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is encouraging new Illinois hunting and trapping license buyers to apply early during application periods for a number of IDNR permits for the 2021-22 hunting seasons.