Eight-year-old Logan Roepke harvested his very first bird on Easter Sunday during the Clay County youth season with his Grandpa and sister by his side.
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Jake Wolf Hatchery quietly produces millions of fish for Illinois anglersFive hundred million fish and counting. That’s the estimated number of fish stocked so far by the Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery’s during its 30 years in operation.
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Jake Wolf Hatchery: Technology advances, but volunteer support still criticalTechnology has made fish tagging and marking more efficient, but the Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery still relies on volunteers to help mark fish before stocking.
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Jake Wolf Fish Hatchery: Video seriesA series of three videos will take viewers through the Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery; introduce volunteers from Salmon Unlimited and provide a glimpse high tech fish tagging and marking equipment from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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George Little: What a difference a year makesLast year, on the first day of spring, it was 82 degrees. This year, with spring just a few days old, we had a record snowstorm. The morning news was full of school closings. In rural areas, the snowplows couldn’t keep up.
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Wet weather puts spring burns behind scheduleThe window of spring burning season opened briefly late last week before the weekend’s record snowfall snapped it shut again.
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DNR turkey biologist: Good reason to be optimistic this springPaul Brewer, wild turkey program manager for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, is optimistic hunters will have a successful spring wild turkey season.
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