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OK everyone, I am preparing a Marketing Plan and I am looking for places on statistics for southern Iowa, in particular Mahaska County. What I need is information on the total number of hunting licenses and tags sold last year in my area. I have searched all over the place and have come up empty handed. Anyone with the statistics or knowledge of where I can get them, please post here or PM me.

Joe
 
Joe.......I may be wrong about this, but I would think the DNR would have the information that you are wanting. Have you contacted them?
 
I have contaced them with no return calls and have been all over the Internet, exausting my ideas. This information is vtal to my report.

Joe
 
Contact Conservation Officer... blind sow....he post on here. Doug Clayton I believe is his name.
 
I don't know where you could find all the information, I tried with no luck, maybe you will have to extrapolate a little bit, theoretically speaking if the population of a county was correlated to the number of tags sold, which was 265,185 tags sold state wide, and the population of mahaska compared to the total population of iowa, there would be 2009 tags sold in the county, there would be 1780 hunters, and 1064 deer harvested according to the statistics of the 2002-2003 hunting season but that is only based on the population of mahaska county. Plus alot of the people that hunt that county may have not bought there tags in that county. so the hunter numbers may go up, resulting in higher deer harvested, or it could stay the same from the hunters leaving the county to hunt else where. i would say since southern iowa gets pounded alot harder than some other counties, the number would be higher. probably 30-40 percent higher leaving anywhere from 2500-3000 licenses 2300-2600 hunters, and around 1500 deer or so harvested. I hope you find this stuff out, and see how far i was off on numbers I hate not being able to fall asleep before 2am or you could just split the total licenses divided by the 99 counties and say 2678.63 tags are sold in each county. which based on the 900 doe tags issued in the county, its obviously a upper end county so the numbers would be extremely higher than what i got. If only life were theoretical
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ON a very depressing note, I noticed that only around 8 percent of iowas population went deer hunting last year, thats just nuts
 
Thanks Blake and Liv4Rut!

I am gonna call Liv4Rut the Iowawhitetail Professor from now on!
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I too came up with "theoretical" numbers very close to that using an average. If I cannot get the right information I will go with a theoretical count.

Blake,

I will try that email. Thanks.

Joe
 
Just to let everyone know,I appreciate your help and ideas. I did email Doug and am awaiting a response.

This paper is going to be used as a MArketing Plan for my college Marketing Class, but it is also an actual Business Marketing PLan for me. I have been working with the local Small Business Development Center for the last year on opening up an Archery Pro Shop with a 10-40 yard indoor range with pop-up targets. I am close to getting this complete and just lack this information.

Being a disabled veteran and unable to workin my regular field of carpentry any longer, due to my injury sustained when deployed to Iraq, my passion of archery and hunting took over and I started dreaming of my own archery shop. Now things are starting to take shape and my dreams are becoming a reality. I just wanted to pass this information along, to show why I needed this information so badly.

Joe
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I'm sure you can get it from the DNR. I know if you wanted to obtain the list of people who bought tags there is a fee for that. But just for stats I.m sure you can get that. Try asking for a biologist, or one of the officers at the WQallace building in DSM.
 
Thanks Supertech. I am still waiting to hear back from someone, anyone from the DNR. No luck yet.
 
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