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From the Iowa DNR:
Quail Forever Awards Local Hunter $100 Prize for Assisting Wildlife Bureau with Survey
BOONE - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is studying small game populations and harvest on public wildlife areas in southern Iowa to learn more about hunter use and harvest on the areas. This is the second year of the study.
Quail Forever supports any research aimed to guide better management and sustainability of the native bird and offered a $100 prize to a hunter who chose to participate in the survey.
Nearly 100 hunters were surveyed about their small game experience, which includes quail, pheasant, rabbit and squirrel. The survey was designed to measure the harvest during the season and timing of when the harvest occurred.
"We are investigating one of the many factors involved with upland game management," said Mark McInroy, upland game research technician with the DNR. "We know hunter harvest is rarely a cause of population declines, but on small, local scale and under certain circumstances, hunters can indeed over-harvest game even within the confines of current seasons and bag limits. We do not anticipate that this is happening in Iowa, but this study is a way of double checking, to see if it is occurring on public wildlife areas."
The 2009-10 survey included hunters from Michigan, Kentucky, South Carolina, Illinois and Indiana, with the most being from southern Iowa.
"Hunter cooperation is the key. Without that, we would not have any data," McInroy said.
Randy Phillips, from Keosauqua, won the prize.
From the Iowa DNR:
Quail Forever Awards Local Hunter $100 Prize for Assisting Wildlife Bureau with Survey
BOONE - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is studying small game populations and harvest on public wildlife areas in southern Iowa to learn more about hunter use and harvest on the areas. This is the second year of the study.
Quail Forever supports any research aimed to guide better management and sustainability of the native bird and offered a $100 prize to a hunter who chose to participate in the survey.
Nearly 100 hunters were surveyed about their small game experience, which includes quail, pheasant, rabbit and squirrel. The survey was designed to measure the harvest during the season and timing of when the harvest occurred.
"We are investigating one of the many factors involved with upland game management," said Mark McInroy, upland game research technician with the DNR. "We know hunter harvest is rarely a cause of population declines, but on small, local scale and under certain circumstances, hunters can indeed over-harvest game even within the confines of current seasons and bag limits. We do not anticipate that this is happening in Iowa, but this study is a way of double checking, to see if it is occurring on public wildlife areas."
The 2009-10 survey included hunters from Michigan, Kentucky, South Carolina, Illinois and Indiana, with the most being from southern Iowa.
"Hunter cooperation is the key. Without that, we would not have any data," McInroy said.
Randy Phillips, from Keosauqua, won the prize.