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May 24, 2021
Hunters in Illinois wrapped up the Wild Turkey Hunting Season for the year with lower totals than the year before.
According to data released by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources late last week, hunters in the state harvested 13,383 wild turkeys during the 2021 season. That’s down from last year’s total of 15,831.
The statewide preliminary numbers for the 2021 Youth Turkey Season saw 1,283 birds harvested, which too is down from the year before with 1,733 birds harvested. The 2020 season was a record for youth season harvest.
Spring turkey hunting was open to most of Illinois’ 102 counties, excluding only DuPage and Cook counties. Dates for the hunting in Illinois’ North Zone, which includes Knox and the surrounding counties, was April 12-May 13. The South Zone was April 5-May 6. The youth season was March 27-28 and April 3-4 around the state.
Arkansas turkey season concludes with just over 7,000 birds checked
LITTLE ROCK Arkansas hunters harvested and checked 7,010 eastern wild turkeys during the 2021 turkey season, which concluded May 9. While the harvest showed a similar decrease to that of surrounding states, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists are hopeful for the future.
“We did expect to see a decline in checked birds this year,” Jeremy Wood, AGFC Turkey Program coordinator, said. “With conservative season dates and new regulations in place to spread hunting pressure, we tried to give turkeys as much of a chance as we could to breed and create future hunting opportunities while maintaining a reasonably good hunting experience. We have to think about the resource first if we want to see the population increase.”
It s officially Let s Jaw About Cold Weather Winter | Sam Venable
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 2 hrs ago Sam Venable
On March 19, when overnight temperatures throughout East Tennessee abruptly flirted with freezing, I received an inquiry from Celia Simon of Kingston.
“So which winter is this?” she wanted to know.
In my typical (smart aleck) fashion, I responded: “Cold Weather Winter is as good a guess as any.”
Celia’s question did light a fire in my pea brain, however. It sparked again during the frigid runup to Easter last weekend, igniting the fuse on my seasonal gripe: Why in the name of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit do we label sudden weather changes in the spring, but not other times of the year?