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Changes in Iowa laws affect outdoor recreation
By JULI PROBASCO-SOWERS
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
July 15, 2007
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Iowa hunters need to become familiar with new regulations before they head out this fall.
A range of changes in Iowa law took effect July 1, from giving youth deer hunters more time to use their tags to requiring that people be attached to an automatic engine shut-off device while they are riding personal watercraft (also called Jet Skis).
Heads-up for hunters
New regulations for hunters will be included in a booklet that will be available where hunting and fishing licenses are sold. The booklets are being compiled and will be printed soon, said Lon Lindenberg, district law enforcement supervisor for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
"We usually try to get it done before the Iowa State Fair (in August)," he said.
Changes in the law or new portions of the regulations will be highlighted in yellow.
For example, youth deer license holders will be able to use their unfilled license in any other firearms season.
"That will give youth a longer window of opportunity," Lindenberg said.
All hunters and anglers will pay $3 more when they purchase their licenses because the habitat fee was raised from $8 to $11. Of the additional $3, $2 will go toward wetland work by using the money to match federal grants available, and $1 will go toward a habitat buffer program for landowners, said Dale Garner, chief of the department's Wildlife Bureau.
The original $8 of the habitat fee is split between the state and county conservation boards, with the main purpose being to buy land for public hunting.
Other changes include:
-The birthdate for requirement of hunter safety certificates has been changed from Jan. 1, 1967 to Jan. 1, 1972. Anyone born in 1972 or later needs a certificate, Lindenberg said.
-Anyone who shoots a deer on land where they do not have permission is not allowed to retrieve the deer and is subject to liquidated damages.
-Only employees of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be allowed to administer birth control shots for wild deer.
-No one in Iowa will be allowed to set up an Internet hunting operation. That does not regulate people from Iowa doing Internet hunting from Iowa on an operation set up in another state.
"We haven't had problems with Internet hunting in Iowa, but there have been in other states," Lindenberg said. "We are just getting ahead of the ball game."
Internet hunting allows a person to go online and operate firearms at a remote location, hunting and shooting an animal without being at the location.
-Liquidated damages for taking game illegally have increased.
Changes in Iowa laws affect outdoor recreation
By JULI PROBASCO-SOWERS
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
July 15, 2007
Add comment
Iowa hunters need to become familiar with new regulations before they head out this fall.
A range of changes in Iowa law took effect July 1, from giving youth deer hunters more time to use their tags to requiring that people be attached to an automatic engine shut-off device while they are riding personal watercraft (also called Jet Skis).
Heads-up for hunters
New regulations for hunters will be included in a booklet that will be available where hunting and fishing licenses are sold. The booklets are being compiled and will be printed soon, said Lon Lindenberg, district law enforcement supervisor for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
"We usually try to get it done before the Iowa State Fair (in August)," he said.
Changes in the law or new portions of the regulations will be highlighted in yellow.
For example, youth deer license holders will be able to use their unfilled license in any other firearms season.
"That will give youth a longer window of opportunity," Lindenberg said.
All hunters and anglers will pay $3 more when they purchase their licenses because the habitat fee was raised from $8 to $11. Of the additional $3, $2 will go toward wetland work by using the money to match federal grants available, and $1 will go toward a habitat buffer program for landowners, said Dale Garner, chief of the department's Wildlife Bureau.
The original $8 of the habitat fee is split between the state and county conservation boards, with the main purpose being to buy land for public hunting.
Other changes include:
-The birthdate for requirement of hunter safety certificates has been changed from Jan. 1, 1967 to Jan. 1, 1972. Anyone born in 1972 or later needs a certificate, Lindenberg said.
-Anyone who shoots a deer on land where they do not have permission is not allowed to retrieve the deer and is subject to liquidated damages.
-Only employees of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be allowed to administer birth control shots for wild deer.
-No one in Iowa will be allowed to set up an Internet hunting operation. That does not regulate people from Iowa doing Internet hunting from Iowa on an operation set up in another state.
"We haven't had problems with Internet hunting in Iowa, but there have been in other states," Lindenberg said. "We are just getting ahead of the ball game."
Internet hunting allows a person to go online and operate firearms at a remote location, hunting and shooting an animal without being at the location.
-Liquidated damages for taking game illegally have increased.
