Local organizations, businesses and community leaders signed a letter to Congressman Mike Bost, urging him to oppose cuts to ...

Now some local groups are calling on Congressman Mike Bost for help. Twenty nine Southern Illinois community stakeholders ...

Local organizations, businesses and community leaders signed a letter to Congressman Mike Bost, urging him to oppose cuts to federal funding and staffing for the Shawnee National Forest.

It’s time once again for our Best of the Midwest feature! Are you trying to come up with some vacation ideas that are only a quick getaway from the Chicago area? Well, John Williams has some great ...

In the early 1970s the Forest Service began closing Snake Road for three weeks in spring and fall to protect the migrating creatures, Sue Hirsch, a public affairs specialist at Shawnee National Forest ...

This photo was taken in the Hidden Cove Waterfall, the namesake of a Shawnee National Forest’s Waterfall pilot project. Provided The national forests in Missouri and Illinois have fewer ...

HARRISBURG — Bi-annually the Shawnee National Forest closes Forest Service Road ... some of them considered threatened and endangered in Illinois and the United States — to migrate from ...

HARRISBURG, Ill. — Officials with Southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest plan several prescribed burns throughout the spring. The treatments aim to reestablish fire's role in Shawnee's ...

Using Forest Service data, Outwander identified Illinois’ national forest campgrounds that remain open all year. While national parks focus on preservation, national forests balance recreation, ...