SPRINGFIELD More than 7,000 students will visit Illinois state parks, natural areas, museums and other natural resources ...

Researchers worked with the Army Corps of Engineers to lower the water level in Red Rock reservoir a foot and a half so the ...

Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to Lake Dardanelle State Park.

I saw the first greater sandhill cranes of the year, 16 of them in the Burton area of Madison County. They dropped in along ...

Naples Creek Rainbow Trout Derby will be held on April 1st, the beginning of the official inland trout season. The 2025 ...

Dorian Warner of Alexandria took this photo near the channel that goes into Lake Charley on March 1. "Soon they will head ...

WHITE PELICANS (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) are a normal springtime sighting of big birds as the spring season continues to ...

Trees provide lots of benefits to us and our environment, from capturing carbon to fueling ecosystems. We look at initiatives ...

The Bald Eagles of White Rock have a community of birders who watch over them. As the red flag warning wind picked up over ...

A new conservancy will oversee work to improve vegetation, water quality and natural habitat in the Salton Sea. Will nearly ...

Editorial written by Los Angeles Times Board. California’s black bears are clever, resourceful and opportunistic. They eat anything and everything — fruits, nuts, insects, human food and pet food.

Chicago has been named the “rattiest” city for 10 years running, according to pest control company Orkin, and efforts to ...