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Fish Tales Photo Contest: Hidden Lakes Trout Farm

7/1/2025 6:00 AM

Tell your personal fish tale by competing in the Fish Tales Photo Contest at Hidden Lakes Trout Farm. It doesn’t take the biggest fish to win, just the luckiest. 

Fish Tales Photo Contest: Monee Reservoir

7/1/2025 6:00 AM

Tell your personal fish tale by competing in the Fish Tales Photo Contest at Monee Reservoir. It doesn’t take the biggest fish to win, just the luckiest. 

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Mosquitoes driving you indoors? Attract dragonflies to your yard

6/30/2025

Dragonflies can eat dozens of mosquitoes a day, so attracting them to your yard might help make your time outside more enjoyable.

Wish upon a shooting star: July a good month for meteor activity

6/27/2025

Meteor activity will be heating up in July, with three meteor showers sending shooting stars streaking across the night sky.

Wild Relatives: The capybara

6/25/2025

What wallows like a pig, swims like a hippo and looks like a giant guinea pig? A capybara, the largest rodent in the world.