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Need some weekend plans? You can head to Ullin for the annual Cache River Days.

(WSIL) -- While surveying fish at Buttonland Swamp in southern Illinois, Hannah Holmquist discovered an aquatic creature she had never seen before. It was a 2-inch-long fish that displayed some

Were making our way across the flat fields of the Grand Prairie on this Tuesday morning. At the wheel is Deke Whitbeck, president of the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation. Along for the ride with Whitbeck and me is Austin Booth, director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Pack up the car, there's no way you've seen all 10 of these.

Pack up the car, there's no way you've seen all 10 of these.

Pack up the car, there's no way you've seen all 10 of these.

Pack up the car, there's no way you've seen all 10 of these.

Kayaking the Cache River in far southern Illinois with the tupelo and cypress feels like something from another time and place; and it reminds just how many very different parts of Illinois there are.

Dear Mahatma: Its the pest from East Arkansas who asks when U.S. 70 through the Cache River bottoms will be improved. Not only is it extremely dangerous because of deterioration, erosion and uneven lanes, but it is a disgrace to those who travel through this lovely area of Arkansas. Its a major artery between Memphis and Little Rock and a respite from the traffic congestion on Interstate 40. -- Beth

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will take another six months to determine whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct.