Sunday afternoon, Marc Miller, Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, put up a simple post on his Facebook Page. No words, just a link to an article by…
I've been going out to Marseilles State Fish and Wildlife Area to hunt squirrels for around eight years. It's just shy of four square miles and the hunter fact sheet…
I spent over 5 hours this morning wandering through the woods. I covered over two miles, half of which is made up of some of the toughest terrain I've ever…
There was a sky blue sky. Virtually no wind. No leaves on the trees. The woods on the edges of my neighborhood, just a hundred feet or so away, were…
I stopped going out fishing at sunrise a few years ago when I noticed it didn't matter. Either the fish were there or they weren't, no different than any other…
. . . But when they stopped, usually on the side of a tree facing away from me, they may as well have vanished into thin air. I headed in…
By the time December rolled around, I was beginning to believe that getting out again in 2007 just wasn't going to happen. Finances had taken a nose dive once again.…
I think I got out hunting twice in 2007, both to Marseilles State Fish and Wildlife Area. Twice is a far cry from the 25 or more trips per year…