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CREST HILL, IL A 19-year-old Plainfield man was found dead from a gunshot wound shortly before noon Friday at the Theodore Marsh preserve in Crest Hill, officials told Joliet Patch.
Will County Forest Preserve spokeswoman Cindy Cain said that two people walking on the path west of Gaylord Road and north of Theodore Street found the young man s body about 20 yards off the trail and called 911.
Crest Hill and Forest Preserve District of Will County police responded to the 911 call at 11:47 a.m. The Will County Coroner s Office pronounced the Plainfield resident dead and an autopsy is scheduled for Saturday.
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The regular season will open April 3, the early catch-and-release season on March 20.
UPDATED: The opener for the five Forest Preserves of Cook County sites have a delayed opener, click here to read.
Cook County sites includes Axehead, Belleau, Green, Horsetail, Sag Quarry East and Wolf Lake; in DuPage, Silver, Pickerel and Grove; in Kankakee, Bird Park Quarry and Rock Creek; in Kendall, Big Lake; In Lake, Sand; in McHenry, Piscasaw Creek and Atwood; in Will, Milliken.
Here is the word from the IDNR:
Illinois Spring Trout Fishing Season Opens April 3
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The 2021 Illinois Spring Trout Fishing Season will open Saturday, April 3 at 57 ponds, lakes and streams throughout the state.
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Calling all nature lovers in northern Illinois! Severson Dells Nature Center wants you to participate in a community science program. Andrea Wallace Noble is an educator and naturalist with Severson Dells. She calls the program a broad global idea and a says it s a partnership between the public and professionals to observe the world around us.
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Included in that world are bats, bluebirds, bumble bees, frogs and plants that live in Winnebago County s forest preserve system.
Noble said, We re looking for volunteers who love nature, want to learn more and make a difference.
Though Severson Dells runs the program, there are 44 forest preserves in the Winnebago County Forest Preserve system and Noble says volunteers choose which forest preserve or preserves they want to utlize.