Iowa Deer News
 DNR conducting annual spotlight deer survey May 4, 2013 Iowa, Ottumwacourier ... “The data is used to follow trends in deer numbers,” said Chris Jennelle, biometrician with the DNR's Wildlife Bureau... Each county has two randomly selected 20-25 mile long routes that are driven when the wind is less than 15 miles per hour, there is no fog or rain, and temperatures are above freezing. It takes 4 to 6 hours to complete each survey... Iowa DNR Considering Changes To Hunting Seasons May 3, 2013 WOWT ... The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is accepting public comments ... Proposed changes to resident deer hunting seasons include a reduction in the quota of paid antlerless deer licenses by 3,950 in six counties in southwest Iowa, where deer harvest and trend surveys showed the reduction was needed most... Public comments will be accepted until May 23, 2013 when a public hearing ... The meeting begins at 1 p.m. in the fourth floor conference room of the Wallace State Office Building, in Des Moines. Written comments may be directed to Wildlife Bureau Chief, Wallace State Office Building, 502 East Ninth Street, Des Moines, IA 50319-0034 or by email to wildlife@dnr.iowa.gov or by fax to 515-281-6794. Two area hunting guides plead guilty to Iowa deer violations May 2, 2013 Iowa, Penn Live ... illegal taking of antlered whitetail deer... owners of the Whitetail Fantasies hunting-guide business... After pleading guilty to hunting-violation charges in Iowa, several area men are to pay more than $22,000 in fines and damages, and are suspended from hunting in 39 states ... for one year ... DNR Conducting Annual Spotlight Deer Survey May 1, 2013 Iowa, WOWT ... The Iowa Department of Natural Resources conducts its nighttime spotlight survey for deer and raccoons each spring before trees leaf out. The survey purpose is to estimate deer densities ... Each county has two randomly selected 20-25 mile long routes that are driven when the wind is less than 15 miles per hour ... Iowa House OKs crossbow deer hunting for residents March 27, 2013 Iowa, Ct Post ... The Iowa House approved a measure Wednesday to expand crossbow hunting of deer by allowing residents to use crossbows during the late hunting season, from Dec. 17 to Jan. 10... Bill Would require Double-Fencing At Deer Farms January 30, 2013 Iowa, KDLT News ... introduced Monday by Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman Dick Dearden is intended to reduce the threat of chronic wasting disease being transmitted to Iowa's deer herd. The height of fences around deer farms and preserves would have to increase from 8 to 10 feet ... Hunters Reported 5,800 Fewer Deer Harvested in 2012 January 29, 2013 Iowa’s deer harvest declined for the seventh straight year as hunters adjust to the smaller herd, and to fewer antlerless tags. Hunters reported 115,606 deer to the harvest reporting system for the 2012 season, a decline of nearly 5 percent. The harvest is down 23 percent from its high in 2006. Deer hunters purchased 378,447 licenses, nearly 14,500 fewer than in 2011, due to the elimination of the three-day November antlerless season, a shortening of the January antlerless season, and reduced antlerless license quotas in some counties.... Deer hunting is also big business in Iowa, providing an economic impact of nearly $214 million, paying more than $15 million in federal taxes and nearly $15 million in state taxes. It supports more than 2,800 jobs, and provides more than $67 million in earnings. Deer harvest declines for 7th straight year January 29, 2013 Iowa, KCCI Des Moines ... Hunters reported 115,606 deer to the harvest reporting system for the 2012 season, a decline of nearly 5 percent. The harvest is down 23 percent from its high in 2006. Deer hunters purchased 378,447 licenses last year... Iowa Deer Hunters Demand New Regulations on Deer Confinement January 19, 2013 DuckHuntingChat.com Iowa Sportsmen Demand 100% Accountability, Liability and Responsibility of any and all Captive Deer Operations that are found to be directly linked to CWD outbreaks and Demand that Legislature draft NEW Regulations on said Iowa Operations that forces them to pay Total cost of Containment of outbreaks associated with CWD OUTBREAKS linked to said facilities. ... Feds go after accused illegal deer hunter January 16, 2013 Iowa, KTVO Federal court documents say that on all three occasions, Bender shot a deer in Iowa with a rifle, from a roadway, and without a license. All are violations of Iowa law. The case became federal when Bender transported the deer between Iowa, Missouri and Pennsylvania ... Chronic wasting disease sees fast rise in Iowa January 8, 2013 Iowa, Ottumwacourier Last week, a third deer in Davis County was revealed to have chronic wasting disease. The state said Pine Ridge hunting preserve cooperated with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in putting up a fence-inside-a-fence to keep their deer from from going nose-to-nose with wild deer. ... That brings the number of known infected deer in Iowa from zero six months ago to 13 as of this week. All are from enclosed hunting or breeding facilities. Third Deer Positive for CWD at Iowa's Davis County Hunting Club January 2, 2013 Iowa, By Iowa Department of Natural Resources A male deer harvested Dec. 15, at the Pine Ridge Hunting Preserve in Davis County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), which is the third positive test for the fatal disease at this facility... The DNR is continuing to collect samples of wild deer harvested from the five mile zone surrounding the facility with a goal of 300 samples. Late season hunters like the cold weather December 20, 2012 Iowa, Iowa City Press Citizen Hunters reported harvesting 8,950 deer during the 2011-12 late muzzleloader season. About 55 percent were does ... The colder it is, the more the deer become oriented to food. Their drive to get to a good food source will be just that much higher,” DNR deer research biologist Tom Litchfield ... Southern Iowa basically has been a story of surplus deer but not a shortage of hunters in the last couple decades. That still should be the story but the effects of EHD — epizootic hemorrhaging disease — may cut into that. DNR: 2nd deer at Iowa preserve had wasting disease December 13, 2012 Iowa, SFGate The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a second deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease at a southern Iowa hunting preserve... a male deer harvested Dec. 1 at the Pine Ridge Hunting Preserve near Bloomfield. EHD virus takes a chunk out of deer population in Siouxland states December 5, 2012 Iowa, KTIV ... there's fewer deer to watch. That's because a virus, called Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, or EHD, killed thousands ... While it's impossible to know exactly how many deer have died, just the numbers of reported animal deaths in Siouxland states are staggering. In Iowa, the disease killed nearly 3,000 white-tailed deer, about 6,000 in Nebraska, and 3,500 in South Dakota. In South Dakota ... Iowa Deer Harvest Nears 60,000 With Second Shotgun Season Beginning December 5, 2012, Kiwa Radio.com The Iowa deer harvest is running about the same as last year near the end of the first season, with nearly 60,000 deer reported to the harvest reporting system. The first shotgun season ends Wednesday December 5th ... Iowa DNR looking for CWD in wild deer December 3, 2012 ConnectTriStates.com powered by KHQA ... we are trying to get as many samples from this immediate area; basically from Bloomfield to Ottumwa is kind of the target areas, but there are some outlying areas around that, and we want to get close to 700 samples from this immediate vicinity,” Bill Ohde with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ... EHD Disease and planned hunts leave thinned deer population December 1, 2012 Iowa, Radio Iowa ... DNR wildlife research supervisor, Willie Suchy, says ... “We have E-H-D almost every year in Iowa, usually not to the extent that we’ve seen this year. We had about three-thousand reported, and probably quite a few more that died out there,” ... the deer numbers are the lowest they have been since 2003 ... Warm Weather/Low Numbers For Deer Season November 30, 2012 Iowa, WHOTV.com The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says there are fewer deer in the fields than there were in 2011, evidence that efforts to control the deer population are working ... 10% fewer deer ... Part of the reason there are fewer deer is a hemorrhaging disease the DNR says claimed more than 3,000 deer... Most Iowa hunters will see fewer deer this season November 29, 2012 Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier ... “Deer numbers are projected to be down at least 10 percent from last year,” noted Tom Litchfield, DNR deer research biologist. “We have been working to decrease deer numbers since 2003. On a statewide basis, the herd is very close to objective, which would be the levels seen in the mid- to late 1990s.” ... Help needed with Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance November 26, 2012 Iowa, Journal Express ...A captive deer tested positive for the disease in Davis County in 2012 and the DNR wants to test as many hunter harvested wild deer in designated zones in Davis, Jefferson, Wapello and Van Buren counties ... For more information, call 641-799-0793, or go to http://www.iowadnr.gov/Hunting/DeerHunting/CWDEHDInformation.aspx Car-deer collisions at nearly 25-year lows November 24, 2012 Iowa City Press Citizen The rate at which deer are being killed by Iowa drivers has sunk to a level not seen since the 1980s. In 2011, drivers in Iowa killed 10,626 deer while driving about 18.6 billion miles for a rate of 570 deer killed per billion miles driven ... deer road kills peaked in the mid-2000s when anywhere from 13,730 to 15,361 deer were killed each year. The road kill rates were getting so bad that the state legislature stepped in about 10 years ago, Joe Wilkinson, a DNR spokesman said. “The legislature basically told us, you need to get the numbers down,” ... Green Valley State Park to Close during Special Deer Hunt Noveber 6, 2012 Iowa, OutodoorHub ... closed to the general public Nov. 17-18, for the ninth annual special park deer hunt... so far 52 deer have been taken by trained hunters. That number is already ahead of last year’s total and this year’s program is slated to continue through the end of January. This is the seventh year that the city has held a controlled deer hunt ... DNR asks for help in catching poachers October 31, 2012 Iowa, Radio Iowa ... You can call the TIP at 1-800-532-2020 and anonymously report what you saw... “The one thing we’ve learned over time in this business as far as fish and wildlife poaching goes — the longer you wait — the less likely we are to make a case.” He says it’s important to write down information like a description of the person involved, the license plate number and color and make of a vehicle, and the area where the crime happened. Wildlife officials battle poaching October 28, 2012 Iowa, Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier When headless deer carcasses and dead fawns and does started showing up in Northeast Iowa two years ago, tipsters pointed authorities toward Dan Wildman... By the time he was apprehended on attempted murder charges Oct. 16 for a shooting incident at Calmar, Wildman had a lengthy criminal record. Much of it involved illegally killing wildlife... Senator Chuck Grassley changes story, now says car was attacked by deer October 27, 2012 Iowa, Twitchy ... Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa stirred up a small-scale controversy Thursday when he tweeted that he'd hit a deer with his car. Grassley said he assumed the deer was killed, but a concerned few wanted to know for sure ... White Deer Spotted In Scott Co. October 23, 2012 Iowa, KWQC 6 ... We sent the pictures to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and biologist, Tom Litchfield confirmed it is a white deer, but he's not sure if it is an albino. While it appears to have a pink nose, Litchfield says it would also need to have pink eyes to qualify for that distinction. He estimates it is a year-and-a-half old buck. He also pointed out a drooping antler, most likely caused from an earlier injury... DNR steps up deer testing October 21, 2012 Iowa, Mason City Globe Gazette Hunters harvesting deer in the vicinity as well as motorists who encounter road-killed deer are asked to contact the wildlife unit office in Ventura at 641- 829-3285. ... Earlier this fall captive deer at three facilities, including a breeding farm north of Clear Lake, tested positive for the disease. These were the first cases of CWD confirmed in Iowa. Fatal viruses hit Iowa's deer population October 18, 2012 SW Iowa News ... Donn Dierks, director of the Council Bluffs Public Health Department. More than 2,000 of these cases have been reported in Iowa recently, with most of them occurring in the south central and southwest portions of the state ... Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, or EHD ... Iowa has not seen such a statewide spread of these viruses since 1998, according to the DNR. Four Louisiana Men Charged With Poaching Iowa Deer October 11, 2012, Iowa Four Louisiana men face 76 counts and nearly $86,000 in fines ... The investigation began in late November when the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Department received a TIP call from a concerned citizen about the activities of these men... Deer feeding ban approved in Sioux City October 8, 2012 Iowa, KTIV Robin Small argued that the city doesn't have a deer problem and that many residents enjoy seeing nature in their backyards. Council woman Rhonda Capron countered that Sioux City, "is not a farm." ... The Mayor says the city's set the fine at $100... Iowa's archery deer hunting season open October 1, 2012 Newton Daily News Tom Litchfield, state deer biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said ... “Our white oak acorn crop is spotty, but the trees with mast began dropping their acorns in early September and were still dropping well this past weekend,” Litchfield said. “We expect the red oaks to have below average mast crops, and the trees with acorns will likely drop earlier than usual.” Iowa’s deer herd is slightly above its population objective in central, south central and southwest Iowa, but is trending towards herd goals. ... | Search for news and information by keyword above or find links to state news stories organized by topic. 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