loneranger
Well-Known Member
Turnips and Radish, should probably be banned as deer food in plots too. I see alot of saliva swapping on those.
Uh yeah, thats like the Packers asking the 49ers for advice on their passing game. :drink1:
Whats wrong with Iowa leading the way/setting the bar in whitetail hunting and herd management? Granted we don't love every reg and decision by the DNR but we do have a pretty good thing going here.
What do our non-res friends have to say about what we have here in Iowa?
Taken from the IBA website:
I believe that trail camera photos over a mineral site promotes bowhunting and adds to my enjoyment of the sport. My kids love all the pics, which have increased their interest in bowhunting as well. I hope the IBA will reconsider and act on behalf of the apparent majority of Iowa bowhunters.
They are still going to have to catch them in the act to prove whos bait it is.They cant just call the landowner and ask who hunts there and mail them a ticket.It could be a trespassers.At the meeting last week I asked how many hours are spent investigating baiting here in Iowa. The following table is from 49 of the COs in the state:
District 1 2010 2009 2008
Citations 1 11 7
Call/complaints19 17 18
Hours spent265 257 190
District 2 2010 2009 2008
Citations 7 2 2
Call/comp. 38 25 6
Hours 285 225 25
District 3 2010 2009 2008
Citations 43 15 19
Call/comp. 111 72 68
Hours 840 427 430
District 4 2010 2009 2008
Citations 2 4 7
Call/complaints23 20 23
Hours 202 155 203
District 5 2010 2009 2008
Citations 7 4 6
Call/complaints31 21 16
Hours 187 252 144
Statewide 2010 2009 2008
Citations 60 36 39
Calls 219 153 128
Hours 1759 1301 942
I don’t know how many COs there currently are but I think 49 is just over half. I don’t know if this means the numbers are actually about double these or not. Nor is the chart broken down into the number of officers in each district that responded to the inquiry. So having said that, the numbers may be skewed. SE Iowa, District 3, may have had more officers respond and, NW Iowa, District 1, may have had fewer.
The important take home message from this info is bating complaints are on the rise and hours spent by COs investigating them are on the rise as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch of the numbers to say it has nearly doubled across the state. In fact, on this partial data alone there is the equivalent of a full time position being spent investigating baiting complaints.
How would the wildlife feeding ban cut down on the time a CO needs to spend on each case? As it is now the CO needs to catch a poacher actually hunting over the bait. He might have to come back several times or stake out the area to catch them, and by the looks of it they investigate a lot of baiting complaints but issue very few tickets. Why? In my opinion they can’t catch them “in the act” The wildlife baiting ban would cut down on the number of trips a CO would need to make to a baiting site.
Unfortunately my comments about making a CO’s job easier were misconstrued and taken out of context. “Easier” refers to how hard it is to make a case, not how much work or time on duty per day they have to put in.
1759 hours divided by 49 CO's divided again by 52 weeks= 42 minutes per week, per CO. Are these hours only on the initial call? If not, it's no wonder there was only a 27% success rate. You could make up 42 minutes a week by cutting one cup of coffee a day. I would like to see the breakdown on their other "investigations".Statewide 2010 2009 2008
Citations 60 36 39
Calls 219 153 128
Hours 1759 1301 942
The hours spent sure aren't going to fall...Bait hunters/poachers are criminals and criminals break laws no matter how many laws they have stacked against their crime of choice.But i could see a rise in all of what you have shown if they change the laws.
I read in a petersons hunting last night that most wildlife biologists agree that cwd cannot be spread through a mineral lick or bait pile...guess the iowa dnr knows something the rest of the nations biologists dont
I will check it tonight, I just got it within the last month or so. I will post more info on it tonight, but I really thought it was funny that its in there.