Announcements
Public Duck and Goose Hunting Area Permit First Lottery Begins August 16!
Maytown Pheasant Habitat Area
Site Contact Info
- Office phone: 815-379-2324
- Office address: c/o Green River SF, 375 Game Road, Harmon, IL 61042
- Site coordinates: 41.61838 -89.4009
- County: Lee
- Site Superintendent (Green River SF parent site)
- District Wildlife Biologist
- Conservation Police
Site Map
Site Characteristics
- Huntable acres: 159
- Habitat: Topography varies from flat to gently rolling which is vegetated in a mixture of cool season grasses and legumes, warm season grasses, and shrubs. There are prairie restorations, old fields, creek bottoms, food plots, and woodland.
Site Specific Regulations
- All statewide hunting regulations apply at site unless noted hereafter.
- Site requires use of windshield card, displayed on vehicle dashboard, to report hunting effort and harvest by 15 February.
- Use Hunt Planner to find hunting seasons open at this site.
- Note regulations posted at the site before hunting.
- No more that 4 hunters at any one time.
- All hunters must sign in, sign out and report harvest at the registration box in the site parking lot.
- All hunting must be with shotgun or bow and arrow
- Species-specific rules:
Deer
- Archery
- Archery deer hunting is allowed in October only.
- All archery deer hunters must sign in at the registration box in parking lot.
- Archery hunters must sign out and report harvest at the registration box in the site parking lot.
- One stand per hunter. Stands must be non-piercing, portable, and removed from the site at the end of each day’s hunt.
- Must not engage in “driving” deer
Turkey
- Turkey hunting not permitted
Waterfowl
- Waterfowl hunting not permitted
Squirrels/Rabbits
- Squirrels
- Squirrel hunting not permitted
- Rabbits
- Special permits are allocated by the IDNR Springfield Permit Office.
- Rabbit hunting must be with shotgun or bow and arrow (flu – flu arrows only, no broadheads).
- Rabbit hunters must wear blaze orange apparel.
- Contact site for season dates
Upland Birds
- Pheasant, Quail, and Hungarian Partridge
- Hunting of pheasant, quail and partridge is allowed by permit only.
- Special permits are allocated by the IDNR Springfield Permit Office. Dates to submit applications for the drawing will be announced.
- 1 permit will be issued for each hunting date
- Each permit holder may be accompanied by up to 3 hunting partners, allowing for a maximum of 4 hunters per day.
- Each permit holder must complete and return a hunter harvest survey report to the IDNR by Feb 15.
- Contact site for season dates
- All upland bird hunting must be with shotgun or bow and arrow (flu – flu arrows only and no broadheads).
- Hunters must wear blaze orange apparel.
Furbearers
- Trapping
- Furbearer trapping not permitted
- Hunting
- Furbearer hunting not permitted
Amenities
- None