Dale Bowman

A wild turkey photographed at Arlington Cemetery, the surprise of a bald eagle while watching sandhills in Highland Park and a correction on deer harvest numbers are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

A forest preserve buck, tree stand safety concerns and the Forest Preserves of Cook County topping 70,000 acres are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond,

Tom Jeffries made his first buck with a bow a truly big one, almost a freak, and earned Buck of the Week honors.

Hints of perch starting on the lakefront, but no hint of imminent ice, lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

A thought on fishing vs. watching the Bears, meeting a big buck at Skokie Lagoons and the jump in sandhill crane numbers at Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Chicago anglers love perch, especially the winter perch at the South South slips and Navy Pier, but anglers worry about construction beginning on Navy Pier Marina and the proposed Quantum Campus by the South Side slips.

Whether it is regulations on walleye, northern pike or smallmouth bass, or on snagging salmon, there are strongly held convictions on multiple sides of fishing on southern Lake Michigan and the Chicago lakefront.

Okàn Savanna, a rare high-quality black oak savanna, is the newest addition to preserved natural areas in the greater Chicago area.

A musing on fishing the Chicago River compared to northern Wisconsin, an exclamation on "dialectics of despair and joy of fishing in Chicago" and a possible connection between Banksy and graffiti art on Warner Bridge over the Kankakee River are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and…

Go & Show this week includes the return of The Early Show, the Chicago area's only all-fly-fishing and -tying show, on Sunday, National Bison Day events at Kankakee Sands on Saturday and the annual fall Lake Michigan Fisheries Workshop by the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant on Wednesday.