Notes come from round Chicago open air and past.
WILD OF THE WEEK
Jay Damm took in one of many esoteric pursuits in Chicago open air and went fossil searching at Mazonia State Fish and Wildlife Space, the place fossil searching opens March 1. “The sooner within the season one goes the higher: Little to no ticks, decreased vegetation and the early fowl will get the worm so far as concretions go,” he emailed. “. . . I managed to seek out some good but closely vegetated mounds of shale surrounding one of many bigger lakes on the park. Earlier than too lengthy I used to be discovering the famed Mazon Creek ironstone nodules.”
He discovered a pair open specimens. One he thought was “a potential Essexella, which has lengthy been labeled as a jellyfish or probably a kind of anemone.” The opposite was “the basic fern, Pecopteris.” In a followup, Damm be aware a biologist/avid collector on the College of Wisconsin, believes the jellyfish might “be the a lot rarer Reticulomedusa.
WOTW, the celebration of untamed tales and images round Chicago open air, runs most weeks within the particular two-page open air part within the Solar-Occasions Sports activities Sunday. To make submissions, electronic mail BowmanOutside@gmail.com or contact me on Fb (Dale Bowman), Twitter (@BowmanOutside), Instagram (@BowmanOutside). or Bluesky (@Bowmanoutside).
WILD TIMES
FISH GATHERINGS
Tuesday, March 18: Information Steve Welch on Shelbyville crappie, Arlington Anglers, Poplar Creek Banquets, Hoffman Estates, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 19: Slammer Deal with’s Invoice Schwartz on early-season muskies, Fox River Valley chapter of Muskies, Inc., Schaumburg Golf Membership, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, March nineteenth: Chauncey Niziol, South Facet Muskie Hawks, Village Sportsmen’s Membership, Alsip, 7 p.m., southsidemuskiehawks.org
Thursday, March 20: Ken “Husker” O’Malley, “Des Plaines River, Cooling Lakes, Pits and Ponds,” Fish Tales Fishing Membership, Price Township places of work, Alsip, 7 p.m., fishtalesfishingclub.com
ILLINOIS SEASONS
Subsequent Saturday, March 22: Early catch-and-release trout season opens at 9 websites statewide, three close by: Rock Creek, Kankakee River State Park; Apple River, Apple River Canyon SP; Pine Creek, White Pines Forest SP.
DUCKS UNLIMITED
Thursday, March 20: Windy City dinner, The Elmcrest, Elmwood Park, ducksunlimited.myeventscenter.com
SHOWTIME
Friday-next Sunday, March 21-23:Illinois Deer Classic, Peoria Civic Heart
Friday-next Sunday, March 21-23:Bassmaster Classic Outdoors Expo, Fort Price Conference Heart, Fort Price, Texas
Saturday, March 22:Riverside Fishing Club swap meet, Berwyn Moose Lodge
The grasp checklist of outside reveals, lessons, swap meets and main ice fishing occasions are https://chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/2024/11/28/outdoors-shows-master-list-for-2025-around-chicago-and-beyond
HUNTER SAFETY
April 5-6: Beecher, bschunted@gmail.com
April 25 & 27: Peotone, 708-258-3343 or peotoneparkdistrict.com
The total state itemizing is at dnr2.illinois.gov/SafetyEd/SafetyEdClassByCounty
SCI Banquet
April 12: SCI Illinois & Chicago chapter’s banquet, Medinah Banquets, Addison
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY
Subsequent Sunday, March 23: Boat America, Jerry Miarecki, boatsafe@coastguardchicago.com
Subsequent Sunday, March 23: Boat America, Jennifer Angone, uscgaux3511@gmail.com
