August 11, 2023

Iowa’s public lands: A limited but appreciated resource for outdoor users

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Iowa, National Fishing, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Steve Weisman

The state of Iowa has nearly 36 million acres of land, but only approximately 1% (owned by the State of Iowa and under Iowa Department of Natural Resources jurisdiction) is public land that Iowans and visitors can access.
According to the U.S. Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, that places Iowa 47th in the nation for fewest acres for public use. This 1% amounts to 390,706 acres, which are managed by the DNR.

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Deer not only culprits raiding farmers’ crops

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Pennsylvania / Ron Steffe

During three months last summer and early fall, I had placed a trail camera along the edge of a corn field at one of my hunting spots. The camera was fastened to a mid-sized beech tree, which was at the edge of heavy woods and thick brush adjacent to the corn field.
As with the placement of trail cams by most other hunters, I wanted to get some idea of the deer numbers — and possible mature bucks — that were living in this area. In the overall collection of photos, I was surprised at all the different forms of wildlife that were raiding the corn crop growing there.

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Stories from Ron Leys, longtime outdoor editor, teach lifelong lessons

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Wisconsin / Patrick Durkin

Ron Leys retired over three decades ago as the Milwaukee Journal’s outdoors editor, roughly four years before Wisconsin’s largest newspaper merged with the company’s morning paper in 1995 to become the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Leys, 86, long ago quit writing stories, but still tells them while fishing with friends on the Mississippi River’s backwaters near his home in Prairie du Chien. Better yet, he still tells the stories within each story.

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