Outdoors
Massasauga and other bands from across the country will join together tonight to raise funds for Eric Plath’s Eagle Scout project for a new canoe and kayak launch on the East Branch of the Little Calumet. There will also be a silent auction that includes a boat and trailer and kayaks.
Illinois is reaching out for applicants for conservation police trainee, but time is of the essence.
The ride was hosted by Envision Unlimited, a service provider for more than 4,500 people with developmental disabilities in Illinois. Participants included Envision’s members — adults with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities.
I enjoy the steps in trying a new urban waterway, almost as much as the fishing itself. Urban waterways are unique experiences that seem a space apart.
Two men, a 46-year-old man from Washington state and a 55-year-old man from Franklin Park, were hospitalized in serious condition following a fire about 3 p.m. Tuesday. Their boat burned.
After the wild weather early last week, summer and summer fishing patterns settle in for this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus a reminder to be alert for pink salmon.
Birds rely on the moon and stars to travel, and bright lights from glass structures at night throw off their navigation. The $1.2 million project began in early June and will be completed before the fall migration.
Matthew Lewandowski caught a big pike that attacked the little pike he was reeling in last week in Canada that adds to a family tradition of fishing and earns Fish of the Week honors.
Prairie State Conservation Coalition is stepping up to assume a major role in funding conservation projects for land acquisition, land stewardship and organization capacity building (organizational infrastructure).
A photo of American white pelicans over Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago and a question about feeding young rabbits are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
El zoológico combinará especies en las exhibiciones para que los visitantes tengan la sensación de estar observando animales en libertad, dijo el presidente y director ejecutivo Michael Adkesson.
Brady Putnam, 9, reeled in a bunch of fish, including a big Chinook, and enjoyed the depths of the whole experience on Lake Michigan.
Big coho, Chinook and lakers on Lake Michigan along with variable conditions inland with the weather lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
The zoo will combine species in exhibits to help guests feel like they’re observing animals in the wild, President and CEO Michael Adkesson said.
Another sign that this might go down as the year of big coho salmon on southern Lake Michigan with a catch of a 18.4-pound coho out of Waukegan.
Late Saturday, the chick was ‘lethargic and struggling’ near Montrose Beach after ‘feeding and moving normally’ throughout the day. Only one of four hatchlings remain.
Bret Cavanaugh and Alex Bielfeldt will be the first to reach Nationals in any sport out of Reed-Custer High School when they fish the Bassmaster High School National Championship Aug. 1-3 on Tennessee’s Chickamauga Lake.
It had been a long time since Hendrickson laid eyes on “Sue the T-rex,” the famous fossil she discovered in 1990. “I’m glad I wore the mask ... because I actually started to cry when I saw her.”
A photo of a night heron on the Chicago River, a question on a bee in Bourbonnais and a note on grouse drumming in Wisconsin are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Monitors observed one of three surviving chicks in Imani and Sea Rocket’s nest appeared to be lethargic and struggling late Thursday, according to a statement from the Chicago Piping Plovers.