Bald eagle and wildlife events fill January calendar
January wildlife notes cover habitat changes and migrations for deer, geese, turkeys, beavers, foxes, eagles, rabbits, and quail. Highlights include Bald Eagle Days at Pere Marquette State Park, Old Chain of Rocks Bridge tours, and multiple statewide tours and hunts with dates, times, and contact numbers.
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Illinois
Kaskaskia
World Shooting and Recreational Complex
Sparta
Pere Marquette State Park
Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
St. Louis
Bald Eagle F.U.N
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Les Winkeler
Naturalist quote on nature’s resilience speeds through harsh words
A fragment quotes a naturalist expressing that no matter how far humans try to control nature with a pitchfork, it inevitably returns. The line hints at a broader reflection on nature’s stubborn persistence in the southern landscape.
Cypress Creek Christmas Bird Count Opens At Wildcat Bluff
Jeff Hoover an avian ecologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey joins Paducah companions for the Cypress Creek Christmas Bird Count beginning at Wildcat Bluff over the Cache River Valley. December 19 offers crisp overcast conditions as participants observe red headed woodpeckers chickadees titmice and other birds from a bluff above the valley. Hoover emphasizes a relaxed approach amid the many counts across the Western Hemisphere during winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allin
Jeff Hoover
Cypress Creek
Wildcat Bluff
Cache River
Hoover
Charlie
John Proctor
Paducah
Judy
Illinois Natural History Survey
Audubon Society
Les Winkeler
Cache River Valley
Endangered Site Superintendent Crisis Hits Illinois Parks
Southern Illinois readers learn that IDNR site superintendents are vanishing with no replacements. Retirements at Cache River, Fort Massac, Cave in Rock, and Tunnel Hill Trail leave sites overseen by few managers. Budget cuts shrink staff from 106.8 million in 2002 to 48.9 million this year, deferring maintenance and risking costly repairs.
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Illinois
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Jim Waycuilis
Cache River State Natural Area
Terry Johnson
Fort Massac
Mike Gullett
Cave-in-Rock State Park
Tunnel Hill State Trail
IDNA
Marc Miller
IDNR
Miller
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Nature
Horace
B.C
Charlie Proctor
Section 8
Karnak
Illinois’ State Park
Missouri
The
Southern Illinoisan
Thesouthern
Rlgdell
Ore
Abe E
Columbia Porron Conteh
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