Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Congratulations to them and the great job they did.

We also have awards of merit for, uh, a number of law enforcement personnel who made outstanding achievements as public am- ambassadors for the IDNR.

They are Logan Clayton, District 11, uh, Sergeant George Chris Johnson, District 9, that's Central Zone, Officer Dalton Kuffel, District 9, Northwest Zone, uh, Officer Amanda McCune, District 13, Southern Zone, Officer James Alroyd, District 12, Southern Zone, Officer T- Dustin Taylor, District 15, Southern Zone, and Officer Steven Vasek, District 16, also from the Southern Zone.

Congratulations on those.

Young hunters took a record number of deer during the youth harvest completed last weekend in Illinois.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources said more than forty-eight hundred deer were taken October tenth through the twelfth.

Broke the old record by more than a hundred.

Forty deer taken in Sangamon County.

Gillespie is in the Sangamon County Jail.

Young hunters took a record number of deer during the youth harvest that was completed last weekend in Illinois.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources said more than 4,800 deer were taken October 10th through the 12th by the youths, breaking the old record of more than 4,700 last year.

IDNR said 40 deer were taken during the weekend in Sangamon County, the top local county, Macoupin 101.

It does require us and the foundation to be, uh, cooperative.

And lucky for us, we have Justin and the folks at IDNR who are willing to, uh, reach out to us and allow us to participate in the activities that are here and to provide the support that we do.

So it's a, it's a really good relationship.

Kendra Floyd, tell me how often you folks get together, the foundation, and do you have goals every year? And one of them, of course, is to raise some money to accomplish some things you wanna see done.

And again, the foundation's been helpful in, uh, providing trees that begin to grow and can look, you know, more mature by the time the link develops, that those kind of things feel comfortable.

And, and now we'll turn our sights, you know, to improving the former YMCA parking lot.

How can we do that? How can we have a public-private partnership? Those are things that we're working on right now with the foundation, uh, because any time we can bring in that private support, that certainly helps what the public entity, what IDNR can, uh, achieve in a certain amount of time, in a limited amount of time.

With the centennial, have you seen additional traffic coming here? Centennial is Route 66, obviously.

If you go to the Chauncey's Great Outdoors Facebook page, I have a full listing there.

You could always go to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and get a listing of all the different places there too.

So let's not pass up any of this.

It's going to be a lot of good time and a lot of fun.

Good to visit with Dan Skinner from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Again, the archery deer hunting season in Illinois opened on October 1st.

And looking at that IDNR calendar, the firearm deer hunting season, the first weekend, November 20th through the 22nd, the second and final weekend, December 3rd through the 6th.

Also, this weekend, uh, October 10th through the 12th, is the youth firearm season in Illinois.

All kinds of information available online.