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A group of people pose together. Everyone is wearing fantasy style costumes including some knights and elves. In the background are trees.

Scientific Outreach with a Fantasy Twist: Using costumes and role play to teach principles of invasion biology

August 1, 2025 by Philip Anderson

People | Education | Habitat Management or Enhancement

Blaze the piping plover stands on a pebble-strewn beach.

People and Plovers: Searching for Blaze

August 1, 2025 by Laura Kammin

People

An agricultural field full of bright yellow sunflowers. In the background is the edge of a field of corn against a fence row of trees. A blue sky is overhead.

Dove Season is on the Horizon

August 1, 2025 by Don Kahl

People | Agriculture | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Prairie or Grassland

A wetland in a valley reflects a bright blue partly cloudy sky. In the background is a grassy hill with trees interspersed throughout.

2025 Pheasants Forever National Farmer of the Year, John Dassow

August 1, 2025 by Jason Bleich

People | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Prairie or Grassland | Wetland

A photo collage of five women anglers with their successful catches. Four of the five women are fishing on a body of water. The fifth woman is holding up her fish while standing in a bait and tackle shop.

Women Who Fish

August 1, 2025 by Kathy Andrews Wright

People | Fishing

A close up of an angler holding up a fish caught on a fishing line with a lure in her right while she poses for the camera. In the background is a dock on a lake. Green trees are in the background.

Taking Youth Fishing—700 at a Time: A summer as a Conservation Education Representative

August 1, 2025 by Kathy Andrews Wright

People | Fishing | Youth

A historical black and white aerial view of a barrow pit lake on Cook County Forest Preserve property. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the logo for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources 100th anniversary.

Illinois Department of Conservation Perspective, 1950 – 1981: Part 2

August 1, 2025 by Bruce Muench

People | 100th Anniversary | History of Conservation

A historical black and white photo with two men sitting at a desk covered with books and writing utensils. In the background are filing cabinets. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the logo for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources 100th anniversary.

Illinois Department of Conservation Perspective, 1950 – 1981: Part 1

August 1, 2025 by Bruce Muench

People | 100th Anniversary | History of Conservation

Under a bright blue sky is a grassland full of tall tan grasses. The grassland is bordered on three sides by tall trees.
A woodland in spring before the trees have leafed out and the ground is covered in flowering bluebells. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the 100th anniversary logo celebrating the 100 years of the founding of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
A prairie stretches out along a treeline in Illinois on a cloudy day. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the 100th anniversary logo celebrating the 100 years of the founding of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Before the Illinois Department of Natural Resources: Conservation History Prior to 1925

May 1, 2025 by Laura Kammin

People | 100th Anniversary | Fishing | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Hunting | Places to Visit | Regulations

The sun rises over a wetland and illuminates the surface of the water. In the background is a horizon line of trees. Overlaying the photo on the top right is the 100th anniversary logo celebrating the 100 years of the founding of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Director’s Message on a Centennial Celebration

May 1, 2025 by Natalie Phelps Finnie

People | 100th Anniversary

Two students looking into microscopes examining samples to identify macro invertebrates.

Illinois RiverWatch Celebrates 30 Years of Community Science

May 1, 2025 by Hannah Griffis, Danelle Haake

People | Habitat Management or Enhancement | Rivers and Lakes | Volunteers

A close up view of a net. A crayfish and a few macro-invertebrates can be seen in the net.

Oh, Hell-grammite! Good Quality.

May 1, 2025 by Patty Gillespie

People

A group of men pose together against a building covered in silver metal siding against a concrete foundation.

Furbearer Trapping School

May 1, 2025 by Kathy Andrews Wright

People | Mammals

A brown and white bald eagle soars on a sunny winter day. In the background are tree branches. On the top right, a logo celebrating Illinois Department of Natural Resources being established for 100 years overlays the image of the eagle.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Centennial as a State Agency: 1925–2025

February 3, 2025 by Chris Young

Aquatic Organisms | Land | People | Wildlife | 100th Anniversary | History of Conservation

A tan and white freshwater mussel nestled in a sandy river bed.

Finding the Elusive Salamander Mussel Alive in Illinois After a Century in Obscurity

February 3, 2025 by Sarah Douglass, Mark Davis

Aquatic Organisms | People | Research | Endangered and Threatened Species | Mussels | Research | Rivers and Lakes

A researcher standing on a concrete sidewalk holds a wild duck with a rusty red head and a black and gray body. In the background are various trees.

Meet the Staff: Mitch Oswald, Division of Wildlife Resources Field Operation Staff Head

February 3, 2025 by Kaleigh Gabriel

People | Wildlife | IDNR Staff | Wildlife

A group of high school aged students stand together in two rows. The teacher stands to the right of the students in the second back row.

Voices for the Future: Everyone Can Make a Difference

February 3, 2025 by Tristin Bednar, Madelynn Grampp, Megan Wiechmann

Aquatic Organisms | Land | People | Wildlife | Regulations | Youth

A group of people stand under the shade of a maple tree and discuss the operational plan of a prescribed burn. Most individuals are wearing fire retardant clothing. In the background is a small house, a trailer pulled by a pickup truck with fire fighting gear, and a gray car.

Barb Heyen Builds a Conservation Team

February 3, 2025 by Gilbert Randolph

Land | People | Wildlife | Habitat Management or Enhancement

Explore Our Family of Websites

A link the Wildlife Illinois web site with advertisements for its four sections: Help, Sightings, Wildlife Identification, and Prevent Problems.
A link the Hunt Illinois web site.
A link the CICADA web site.
A link the Living with White-tailed Deer web site with advertisements for its three sections: ecology, management, and history.