
New Iowa deer tag option available for disabled veterans
Tags for Iowa’s 2025-26 deer season went on sale Aug. 15, and new this year, is a disabled veterans deer tag, that was signed into law during the last legislative session.
To qualify for

Tags for Iowa’s 2025-26 deer season went on sale Aug. 15, and new this year, is a disabled veterans deer tag, that was signed into law during the last legislative session.
To qualify for

Pool 19 of the Mississippi River has long been a refueling stop for diving ducks migrating up and down the portion of the Flyway that touches Illinois and neighboring states.
It’s also an ongoing

The past director of the Wyoming Fish and Game Department has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Brian Nesvik succeeds Paul Souza, who

An initiative that could bring direct benefits to duck hunters by bolstering mallard and other duck populations in areas that produce the birds that migrate down the flyways each fall has taken wing.
The

The North American Board of Directors for Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) announced on Tuesday that Patrick Berry has stepped down from his role as President and CEO, effective July 25, 2025, to pursue new

The black carp bounty program that has paid Illinois anglers who catch and report the invasive species has expanded to several other states.
Now called “Keep, Cool, Call,” the effort offers $100 to anglers

Iowa’s 2024 estimated pheasant harvest was the second highest in nearly two decades, coming in at more than 460,000 roosters last fall, surpassed only by the 2023 harvest of 590,000.
This is the best

At nearly 5,800 acres, Volga River State Recreation Area is hard to miss.
Just a few miles north and east of Fayette, Iowa, Volga River has two campgrounds, one offering services to equestrians, and

A total of 332 athletes from 39 Iowa teams participated in the 2025 Iowa Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Skeet Championships on June 18-21, at the New Pioneer Gun Club, in Waukee.
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