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I listened to a decent amount of a podcast with him after seeing this thread. He doesn’t say much that I disagree with, we definitely need to start putting our health and water quality first in Iowa. We made it too easy to grow corn in my opinion. I was blown away by the number of acres he said...

I’ve been on both sides of this sort of thing, luckily we only burned cornstalks and never anything really expensive, and never too big of an area. I would call someone who does tree plantings and have them give you a bid on everything that died in that fire. Maybe price the replacement of the...

Harrison county was one of the hardest hit counties in western Iowa and for example it has shot 1350 does since the outbreak in September of 2021. Start thinking about how many deer that 1350 would be, especially if any of those were immune after surviving the outbreak.

I just went out and dug up clumps of little bluestem. Use an air hose to blow the dirt out of the roots and then used 2 part epoxy to hold the roots back together. On some others I cut the grass off at ground level. Shot some spray foam in a pop bottle and shoved the clump of grass in the bottle...

Sad part is if it takes 5 years to get back to the population we had that means it’ll take an additional 5 years to reach the same number of 5 year olds we had on the landscape. It’s frustrating looking at the harvest data for 2021-2024 and seeing the number of does that got shot after each...

I won’t speak for everyone but where I work/hunt we lost 1/2 the herd in 2021, had a pretty bad run of it again in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Couldn’t tell you what percentage we are from what we were because some better habitat sections just picked up a lot of the deer that survived. Some sections...

I definitely get what you’re saying, but theres miles and miles of area in those counties with zero deer. 4 years in a row of EHD and self control hasn’t been exercised by enough people to keep does from getting hammered in those counties. In a normal situation yes 100% better to shoot a doe...

Probably not enough of one.

Shelby, Crawford, Ida, Woodbury, Plymouth, O’Brien , Sioux , and Lynn

Seems like this is so hard to really lump fence sitters in together just by the distance they are from the fence. I hunt one sanctuary where I put the stand clear up against the fence just to keep myself out of the sanctuary and to blow my scent into an ag field behind me. Yes I’m 12’ off the...

they’re gonna scream regardless of the rules

I would say this is without a doubt the will of the hunters in that region that consider themselves “conservationists” That said, there’s absolutely going to be that %5 of guys that are going to piss and moan about how there’s too many deer in Sioux county Iowa and they need to be able to shoot...

They’ve held quite a few public meetings (I think 12) in 2024 and 2025 , in western Iowa just checking the pulse for major changes in regulations out there. The 3 meetings they held last May ( Denison, Hinton, and Sioux center) had a lot of people at them and everyone had a questionnaire to...

The biggest shame of all is the fur market just being ruined, the lefty’s finally got what they wanted (or so they think) and what they didn’t account for was that all of these animals were still going to get shot or trapped whether there was a fur market or not. But it’s not their problem...

Don’t believe they do sportsmen any favors? Turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks , geese… all benefit so the sportsmen that hunt them benefit. Not to mention the damage getting blamed on deer, thus affecting deer hunters. What did you sell your coons for this year on average? And how many did you...

Yep , and since it’s a contest for the most coons shot it would be fairly counterproductive to shoot them and not pick them up. So I don’t see that being an issue, the checkin at the end will be virtual so each contestant will be responsible for their own coons.

The reason the tournament is being held in March is the same reason the season was opened year round. Coons aren’t bringing enough money to sustain a harvest that keeps their population in check. Shooting coons in March and April is the best time to affect nesting success. You want to talk...

Season doesn’t close for coons on private land.

What county ?