Iowa pheasant harvest dips to about 221,000
Iowa DNR
July 10, 2018
An early look at the 2018 pheasant forecast begins with nesting success, which is likely a mixed bag.
Iowa DNR
Iowa hunters harvest 11,700 spring turkeys, down 100 from last year
Iowa DNR
May 29, 2018
Turkey hunters reported harvesting 11,700 Iowa birds this spring, which is 100 birds fewer than were harvested in 2017. Iowa’s spring turkey seasons began April 7 with the youth season and ended on May 20.
Parts of the Midwest seeing a resurgence of predator animals
Associated Press
April 18, 2018
Bears, bobcats, gray wolves and mountain lions expanding into some areas they have not inhabited in years.
As funding cuts loom, Iowa state park operations in jeopardy
Associated Press
March 15, 2018
MASON CITY, Iowa — In 2009, following one of the worst floods in recent state history, the state allocated about $22 million for the Iowa DNR. Now, the DNR has around $11.17 million in state
Iowa Monarch Conservation Strategy: upward of nearly a million acres for monarch habitat by 2038
Iowa DNR
March 13, 2018
The Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium has set a goal of acres devoted to monarch butterfly habitat in the state by 2038. “The consortium has worked collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to develop a comprehensive plan to
Thousands of fish dead after winter kill in three eastern Iowa lakes
Iowa DNR
March 6, 2018
SOLON, Iowa — The Iowa DNR received reports of dead fish in Terry Trueblood Lake in Iowa City, and Mohawk Park Lake and Cedar Lake in Cedar Rapids, on Feb. 27. DNR fisheries staff found
Arizona man found guilty of deer poaching in Iowa
Iowa DNR
February 28, 2018
Nicholas Slater of Glendale, Ariz., was found guilty following a trial on Feb. 12, 2018 for charges related to poaching a whitetail deer. The poaching incident occurred at Lake Manawa State Park in Council Bluffs
In Iowa, CWD confirmed for first time outside of northeastern part of state
Iowa DNR
February 8, 2018
The hunter-harvested adult doe was taken in southeast Wayne County during the first shotgun deer season. There have been seven additional CWD positive tests so far from deer in northeast Iowa from 2017.
Iowa deer collection, CWD effort: ‘We want the tradition of hunting to continue’
Iowa DNR
January 24, 2018
Deer collection underway to sample for CWD in Allamakee, Clayton counties.
