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4 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Dale Bowman
Notes come from around Chicago outdoors and beyond. WILD OF THE WEEKTom Britton photographed this tom turkey wandering around Britton’s Lake Barrington home in early April. The tom eventually met up with another turkey. “Lake Barrington has more interesting wildlife and it gets better every year!” Britton emailed. WOTW, the celebration of wild stories and photos around Chicago outdoors, runs most weeks in the special two-page outdoors section in the Sun-Times Sports Sunday.
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6 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Dale Bowman
Bizarre terminations of staff coupled with freezing of signed contracts for ongoing restoration work at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie by the Trump Administration brought chaos and confusion in mid-February. Now funding has been unfrozen for the $1.5 million America the Beautiful Challenge grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for a project to restore and expand 1,321 acres of grassland at Midewin led by Openlands and partner The Wetlands Initiative.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Dale Bowman
The South Side Muskie Hawks Swap Day leads off Go & Show from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at the Village Sportsman’s Club in Alsip. There’s free hot dogs, raffles and split-the-pot. It’s $5 entry. For table information, call (708) 372-1977. Room-to-room trading begins Tuesday, April 22, for the North American Vintage Decoy & Sporting Collectibles Show at the Westin Chicago Lombard. Many consider such trading the highlight of the show.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Dale Bowman
With the first four smallmouth bass dubbed Jake and Elwood, Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Addams, I have high hopes for the Illinois Natural History Survey study about smallmouth movement on southern Lake Michigan and in the Calumet. Even early on, fascinating tidbits come. That’s what Charlie Roswell, assistant research scientist for aquatic ecology for the INHS, outlined Thursday at the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s Lake Michigan fisheries meeting in Wilmette.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Dale Bowman
Coho salmon and smallmouth bass action on the lakefront and the general spread of spring action inland around Chicago fishing lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report. Jason Olinger messaged the photo at the top of the big northern pike with fishing with Jesse Granato off Chicago. More on their catches is in the Lakefront report. A fish like that deserves a full length view.
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Column & notes for today. Small glimpses of hope on #LakeMichigan. #preyfish #rainbowsmelt #fishing #Chicagofishing Lake Michigan prey fish numbers move up slightly, (smelt not so much) https://t.co/CUSSZ4VDqM
Sprawling raw-file MFR. #troutfishing #cohosalmon #salmonfishing #Chicagofishing #Chicagolakefront #smallmouthbass #bassfishing #rainbowtrout #bigfish Chicago fishing: Lakefront coho and the trout opener https://t.co/dkP0iVbBbS
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant's fisheries meeting Thursday in Wilmette. They're invaluable, a chance to expand my mind. #LakeMichigan #fishing #smallmouthbass @alewifes @ILINSeaGrant @INHSillinois Lake Michigan Fisheries meeting comes Thursday in Wilmette https://t.co/0FKeJfoGMb