2005 Iowa Legislature

[OneCam]

As most of you know 2005 Iowa Legislation has begun, the deer issues are hot and insurance companies are very serious about legislative actions to reduce our deer herd.

We need phones call to your legislators, members of the House and Senate Natural Resource Committees. All calls should be polite, respectful and to the point. Let them know your position on the following topics regarding Iowa’s Deer Herd.

* Let them know that Iowa sportsmen and women are doing their part to control the deer herd.

* Maybe the HUSH program should be streamlined to make it easier to get deer in the program.

* This year’s harvest of deer should be an all time high, with all the extra doe tags.

* Most Importantly Why Non-Resident hunters should not be effectively used as a management tool.
**** including your thoughts on losing land and hunting rights
**** the possible adverse population concerns of leasing etc

Go to this website to find your legislators
Iowa Legislature Website

I will post the list of Natural Resource Committee members; nothing goes to the floor of house or senate without their vote.

House Standing Committee Membership
Natural Resources·
Mary Lou Freeman (R, District 52), Chair
· Mike May (R, District 6), Vice Chair
· Paul Bell (D, District 41), Ranking Member
· Rich Arnold (R, District 72)
· Clel Baudler (R, District 58)
· Mark Davitt (D, District 74)
· Marcella Frevert (D, District 7)
· Steven Lukan (R, District 32)
· Jim Lykam (D, District 85)
· Rick Olson (D, District 68)
· Dan Rasmussen (R, District 23)
· Henry Rayhons (R, District 11)
· Nathan Reichert (D, District 80)
· [censored] Taylor (D, District 33)
· Dave Tjepkes (R, District 50)
· Linda Upmeyer (R, District 12)
· Jim Van Engelenhoven (R, District 71)
· Jim Van Fossen (R, District 84)
· John Whitaker (D, District 90)
· Wes Whitead (D, District 1)
· Paul Wilderdyke (R, District 56)

Senate Standing Committee Membership
Natural Resources and Environment

· Dennis Black (D, District 21), Co-chair
· Hubert Houser (R, District 49), Co-chair
· Joe Bolkcom (D, District 39)
· [censored] L. Dearden (D, District 34)
· E. Thurman Gaskill (R, District 6)
· Tom Hancock (D, District 16)
· David Johnson (R, District 3)
· Steve Kettering (R, District 26)
· Mary Lundby (R, District 18)
· David Miller (R, District 45)
· John Putney (R, District 20)
· Brian Schoenjahn (D, District 12)
· Joe Seng (D, District 43)
· Frank Wood (D, District 42)

Please be respectful and polite,there are members on committee that are on our side. Iowa Legislature Website

 

[Limb Chicken]

Along the same lines... Can the Kansas guys chime in here and tell me if you are going to have to choose a zone next year instead of being able to hunt state wide? If so this is a great example of how this can get out of hand. The Kansas deal started because one of the Kansas Legislators went to buy a tag in Oklahoma to deer hunt and could not because the NR were not allowed in Kansas (the story is in North American Whitetail a couple of years ago), the next year they introduced NR, then transf. landowner tags and now if I heard right the residents have to choose a zone that they are going to hunt instead of a state wide tag...

 

[Old Buck]

Onecam,

Great post. It is easy to gripe but this is where you can make a difference. Do exactly as onecam says. Make a polite, intelligent, well thought out, expression of your opinion.

Make sense and your voice will count.

Old Buck

 

[TallTines]

so many names! which one should i call first. Any of them specifically important to try to change their minds or should I get a calling card and start dialing numbers.

 

[JNRBRONC]

This should narrow things a little:
http://www3.legis.state.ia.us/ga/committee.do?id=10 This is the Senate, the House NRC is: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us/ga/committee.do?id=28


This is the Natural Resources Committee. I think it is where most deer bill originate. Correct me if I'm wrong people