
Iowa’s ’Chickadee Checkoff’ donations to aid wildlife keep falling
The program’s donors have steadily declined in number over the years from nearly 13,000 in 2003, the first year the Iowa DNR tracked the number of donors, to 6,269 for tax year 2021.

The program’s donors have steadily declined in number over the years from nearly 13,000 in 2003, the first year the Iowa DNR tracked the number of donors, to 6,269 for tax year 2021.

Each spring Iowans see clouds of smoke billowing up from both state wildlife areas and on private tracts of grassland all across northwest Iowa. Citizens sometimes question or complain about the fire eating up the

Perhaps the greatest muskie wanderer was tag No. 57715, a 21-year-old 47-inch female that had been stocked as a yearling in 2002. Data collected over the years shows she had been captured by DNR nets

These workshops are for anybody interested in getting involved in Iowa’s Frog and Toad Call Survey which has been collecting data on Iowa’s amphibians for over 30 years.

Black-capped chickadees survive the harshest winters with amazing adaptive behaviors and abilities. From adjusting their core body temperatures to shedding and adding brain cells to memorizing hundreds of locales of stashed foods, these tiny wonders

The goal of the program is to develop a small, connected, and well-educated network of local leaders to effectively communicate about the management and mitigation of chronic wasting disease in deer.

An estimated 2,200 students from more than 125 schools from across Iowa will be in the Richard O. Jacobson Exhibition Center (Bullseye) and the 4H Building (3D) at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines

Eurasian watermilfoil was discovered on Iowa’s lower Okoboji chain of lakes late in the summer of 2022. With the help of outside organizations in fundraising efforts, the DNR is now working hard to eliminate the

In May of 2022, Pheasants Forever Minnesota worked out an agreement with the owners to purchase a 195.5 acre property of farmland that frequently floods.
Conservationists, clean-water groups and lake homeowners in the Iowa
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