This will fall on deaf ears because anyone in IBA/IWF will refuse to listen to anything but:
-increase NR tag numbers to say, 9,000 or 10,000. It's a pretty meager increase. You would potentially be staring at another $2mil in revenue. Because apparently nobody in the state of Iowa can afford to buy their own land to hunt on or feels that the land they currently hunt is going to get gobbled up by non-residents, use that money to buy more land for public hunting. Get creative with the funding from the legislature, make some cuts here and there, that $2mil goes a long ways in securing roughly 1,000 acres per year. That's just off the extra NR license sales. I'd suspect there would be a small bump in tax revenue and economic growth off hotel rooms and other NR expenditures.
-Grant one preference point to landowners in every draw. Landowners are taxpayers. That should count for something. Taxpayers and Joe Blow from Pennsylvania or Texas are not equal and should not be treated as such. Non-landowners would have the opportunity to draw a tag but would not have the same success rates as non-landowners.
-Same price of doe tags for NR landowners as residents pay. If Iowa is really serious about getting the herd thinned out, charging $150 or whatever it is for a doe tag is not going to get it done if they want support from non-residents. That sends the wrong message. Heck, if they're really serious about getting numbers down, the cost should basically be whatever it cost to print the tag and run the registration process, for anyone buying a doe tag in Iowa.
-remove the 35% cap on archery tags. it's pointless.
-Eliminate all governor's tags. Sorry Bill Jordan, Drury's, Primos's, etc. The state of Iowa doesn't need to be "promoted" for deer hunting. For what reason should Blake Shelton get a governor's tag? Does playing the guitar and singing make him more deserving of a tag? If all of you on this board aer so supportive of the average Joe struggling to scrape by and go hunting, you should screaming for the governor's tag to be done away with, just as you rabidly denounce any concession made to Non-residents, no matter how insignificant.
I just laugh at how non-resident sportsmen aren't supposed to buy land. And then non-resident investors are chastised for buying land. If no Iowa residents can afford it, whos going to buy it? Land prices aren't going to magically deflate to what they were 10 or 5 years ago. Today is the lowest prices you will see for land for forever. The same for tomorrow. And 6 months and a year from now. It's only going up.