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Habitat: Gently rolling topography with slough, cultivated field, grassland, wetland, and pine woodland. Active habitat management will be occurring throughout the year on the site.

Site Specific Regulations

Statewide and associated species regulations apply at the site unless noted hereafter.

Site requires use of a windshield card, displayed on vehicle dashboard, to report hunting effort and harvest by 15 February.

Deer

Archery

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

One non-piercing, portable tree stand may be left unattended from Sept 15 – Jan 31. Stands must be marked with the hunter’s name, address, and phone number.
Must obtain a windshield card.
Closed during firearm deer season, but open during the statewide muzzleloader deer season.
Not required to sign in/out of the site daily, but must report visits and harvest via the windshield card.

Firearm

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

One non-piercing, portable tree stand may be left unattended from Sept 15 – Jan 31. Stands must be marked with the hunter’s name, address, and phone number.
Must obtain a windshield card.
Requires a site-specific permit issued through the statewide lottery.
Permit holders must check in by 5 am.
Vacancies after 5 am will be filled by a drawing for stand-by. Stand-by permits are valid for that day only, are site-specific, and are $5.00 each. No other deer permits are required.
Firearm deer hunters are required to sign in prior to hunting and to check out and report harvest immediately after the conclusion of the hunt at the hunter check station.

Late Winter Antlerless

Available at this site, if county is open to late winter anterless season.

Statewide regulations apply, county permit is required or an unfilled Green River SWA lottery permit for 1st or 2nd season firearm can be used in the late winter antlerless season.

Muzzleloader

Not available at this site.

Special CWD

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

County permit is required or an unfilled Green River SWA lottery permit for 1st or 2nd season firearm can be used in the late winter antlerless season.

Youth Firearm

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Youth deer hunting permit is required.

Please note: Youth hunters must be accompanied by a non-hunting parent, guardian, or responsible adult with a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card (FOID). Both the youth hunter and non-hunting adult must wear the required blaze orange garments.

Turkey

Fall Archery

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Archery turkey hunters are not required to sign in/out of the site daily but must report their visits and harvest via the windshield card.
Closed during firearm deer season, but open during the statewide muzzleloader deer season. Archery hunters are required to wear blaze orange clothing during muzzleloader, and Special CWD deer seasons.

Fall Shotgun

Not available at this site.

Spring

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Site-specific permit issued through the statewide lottery is required.
Limited number of hunters per day
Stand-by hunting not available

Youth Spring

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Youth turkey hunting permit is required.

Please note: Youth hunters must be accompanied by a non-hunting parent, guardian, or responsible adult with a valid firearm owner’s identification (FOID) card.

Waterfowl

Not available at this site.

Upland & Small Game

Controlled Pheasant Hunting

Available at this site. For further information, see the Controlled Pheasant Hunting webpage and the Youth Controlled Pheasant Hunting webpage.

Crow

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Permitted from Jan 1 – Feb 28 but is closed during the site’s firearm deer season.
Crows may be hunted from ½ hour before sunrise to sunset.

Dove

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Non-toxic shot only; #6 steel or #7 bismuth & tungsten or smaller
A Windshield Card is also required and can be obtained through the IDNR Windshield Card System. You must report your harvest and hunter trips via the system, even if you did not hunt, by February 15.
Hunters must register/sign in before hunting, and they must sign out and report harvest at the site check station immediately following their exit from the field

Sept 1-5

Dove hunting Sept. 1-5 is by lottery-issued permit, only.
Hunting hours are from 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Permit holders must register at the site check station prior to 11:00 am
Permitted hunters who fail to complete their registration by 11:00 am shall have their permit voided.
Following registration, a daily stand-by drawing, if needed, will be conducted for unclaimed or voided permits
Field and stake selection will be made at the site check station through randomized draw following the standby draw
Hunters may be required to wear back patches while in the field
Hunters must hunt within 10 feet of an IDNR marked stake and their firearm will remain at their chair, when leaving the stake is necessary (retrieving birds, etc.)
Hunters may bring 1 non-hunting, unarmed observer
Free Dove Permit One Stop

Sept 6-30

Permit not required
Hunting hours: 12:00pm-Sunset

Rabbits

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Rabbit hunting follows the non-fee pheasant and quail hunting rules.
Requires a lottery-based Free Upland Game Permit that you can apply online for between Aug 1 – Aug 31. Harvest reporting materials will be mailed to successful permit holders via the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS). You must report your harvest to INHS by February 15th to avoid losing hunting privileges for the following year.
Statewide hours and bag limit rules but is permitted generally only on Mondays, Wednesday, and Thursdays in Nov and Dec and is not permitted during firearm deer seasons. Contact site for specifics about each year’s dates.
Permit holder may bring up to 5 hunting partners.
All hunters are required to sign in prior to hunting and are required to check out and report harvest immediately after the conclusion of the hunt. Sign-in/check-out box is located at the hunter check station.
Shotgun or archery (flu-flu arrows only).
Non-toxic shot is required, of the size #3 or smaller steel or tin shot, size #4 or smaller bismuth, or size #5 or smaller tungsten (iron-polymer matrix).
Hunters must wear adequate blaze orange.

Squirrels

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Squirrel hunting is permitted from Aug 1 – Oct 31.
Shotguns with steel shot of #3 or smaller, or with shot of # 5 or smaller for lead, tungsten or bismuth.
.22 caliber or smaller rimfire rifles, muzzleloading black powder rifles, or air rifles .25 caliber or smaller, and may use archery tackle of flu-flu arrows.
Required to sign-in prior to hunting and to check-out and report harvest immediately after the conclusion of the hunt. Sign-in/check-out box is located at the hunter check station.
Must obtain a windshield card.

Upland Birds

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

Requires a lottery-based Free Upland Game Permit that you can apply online for between Aug 1 – Aug 31. Harvest reporting materials will be mailed to successful permit holders via the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS). You must report your harvest to INHS by February 15th to avoid losing hunting privileges for the following year.
After youth pheasant hunting days, hunters may hunt generally on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in Nov and Dec, but pheasant hunting is not permitted during firearm deer hunting seasons.
All hunters are required to sign in prior to hunting.
Hunters must remain in assigned area for at least the first hour of hunting.
Hunters must check out/report harvest immediately after hunt’s conclusion. Sign-in/check-out box is located at the hunter check station.
Non-fee pheasant and quail hunting by statewide hours and bag limit rules but permitted generally only on Mondays, Wednesday, and Thursdays in Nov and Dec. Contact site for specifics about each year’s dates.
Pheasant & quail hunting are not permitted during firearm deer seasons.
Permit holder may bring up to 5 hunting partners.

Woodcock

Not available at this site.

Furbearers

Hunting

Available at this site. Statewide regulations apply, except:

.22 rimfire firearms permitted from 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise
Furbearer hunting closed during Firearm Deer Season.
Hunters with a valid, unfilled firearm deer permit for the hunt area may take coyotes during legal hours of the firearm deer season. Otherwise, the use of shotgun slugs to take furbearing mammals is prohibited on state sites.
Skunk and Coyote seasons close the last day of February.

Trapping

Not available at this site.

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