Nick Echterling News Today

A near-record amount of sandhill cranes flocked to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish & Wildlife Area last week.

A buck in Hegewisch, symbolic of too many deer in that area, a Downstate dog story and a near-record count of cranes at Jasper-Pulaski FWA in Indana are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

One of natures greatest spectacles in Northwest Indiana is again spreading its wings at the Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area.

Sally Arroyo isn’t a stranger to sandhill cranes. The 4-foot-tall birds sometimes stop right near her house in Homer Glen, Illinois, where they nibble on the leftover corn at a

Over 30,000 sandhill cranes roost at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area during their fall migration.