Articles filed under Outdoors
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Mike Jackson on the outdoors: Lindner's talesDec 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Right now I feel as if I'm part of a group of youngsters sitting in front of the fireplace listening to a relative read stories from the past. All of us "kids" hunger ...
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Mike Jackson book review on “Paddle North”Dec 06, 2011 11:00 pm - I grew up in a Chicago apartment that had wall-to-wall book cases. There were all sorts of books related to the sciences, philosophy, medicine and, of course, the outdoo...
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Outdoors notes: Fishing tackle controversyDec 06, 2011 11:00 pm - It’s wait-and-see time again with the Environmental Protection Agency. That federal agency was again petitioned by the Center for Biological Diversity and two other grou...
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It's time to convince you to try ice fishingNov 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Winter time does strange things to us here in the Midwest. Quite often our tendencies lead us to making excuses so as to just sit inside and complain it's too cold and t...
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Outdoors notes: fishing updateNov 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Here we are once again, between the devil and the deep blue sea, so to speak. And it all has to do with an unusual weather pattern. The goofy weather conditions has area...
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Hunters take 66,500 deer over 1st weekendNov 22, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois hunters harvested more than 66,500 deer during the state’s opening firearm season. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says the prelimina...
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A wild, traditional Thanksgiving remembranceNov 22, 2011 11:00 pm - The dining room in my Grandparent's apartment, as small as it was, seemed to always have room for one more soul. Us kids stuck together, since it was an all-boy continge...
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Illinois deer harvest down after first weekendNov 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 66,501 deer during the opening weekend of the 2011 Illinois Firearm Deer season on Nov. 18-20, according to the Illi...
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Good luck charms and the international language of anglingNov 15, 2011 11:00 pm - Henri came to the states 20 years ago to broaden his kitchen experience. “I am one of an ever-growing group of French chefs who refuses to is believe the sun rises and ...
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5 charged in deer poaching investigationNov 09, 2011 11:00 pm - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Law Enforcement has filed charges in Cook and Sangamon counties against five men from Illinois and Michigan after ...