by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 4, 2023 | News, Outdoors
Iowa’s spring turkey hunting season is scheduled to start later this week. Nate Carr, a conservation officer with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says Iowa’s youngest hunters will fire the first shots. “Youth season is going to get us...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 13, 2023 | News, Outdoors
DNR state deer biologist, Jace Elliott, says testing during the recent season found more cases of chronic wasting disease. “Unfortunately, about 84 deer tested positive across the state this year. Now keep in mind, that’s out of about 5000 deer that were...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 9, 2023 | News, Outdoors
The Iowa Natural Resources Commission has approved spending $75,000 on a filter system for the Spirit Lake fish hatchery in Dickinson County to improve the production of muskellunge or muskies. DNR fisheries supervisor, Jay Rudacille says the system is needed to...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 8, 2023 | News, Outdoors, Sports
DNR state deer biologist, Jace Elliott, says hunters reported taking more deer this year. “We saw about 109,600 deer harvested across the state throughout all of our regular seasons, which represents about a seven percent increase to the harvest that we saw in...
by O. Kay Henderson | Feb 6, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
An Iowa lawmaker is working on a bill that would give the owners or tenants on agricultural properties permission to capture or kill raccoons that are a nuisance. Representative Dean Fisher of Montour says raccoons have become a big problem. “The raccoon...