nstric
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Iowa Legislature Considering Misguided Action
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shorthairs4life
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Has Iowa looked at what Nebraska launched. The focus on pheasants campaign they launched sounds interesting and focused on providing incentives for private landowners to create more upland habitat. It also created an additional incentive to allow walk-in access. Obviously the jury is still out if the campaign will produce the desired results but it would be something that the state can look at instead of recreating the wheel and shooting from the hip by manipulating the season length. Asking the state representative to consider that option may be a good voice for them to hear.
Has Iowa looked at what Nebraska launched. The focus on pheasants campaign they launched sounds interesting and focused on providing incentives for private landowners to create more upland habitat. It also created an additional incentive to allow walk-in access. Obviously the jury is still out if the campaign will produce the desired results but it would be something that the state can look at instead of recreating the wheel and shooting from the hip by manipulating the season length. Asking the state representative to consider that option may be a good voice for them to hear.
KBell
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Hello Nate and others,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Nate. As many of you know, I have written in other threads that I believe it will come down to we "hunters" if anything is going to be done for the pheasant population in Iowa. We are the one that care. Nate, where is Todd Bogenschultz in this? Pheasants Forever? and the IDNR?
I am wondering if through this forum we can begin to unite as "hunters" and get our names, addresses, and phone numbers organized to begin the process of suggesting we be included in these decisions and the decision-making process. It has got to start somewhere???
Hello Nate and others,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Nate. As many of you know, I have written in other threads that I believe it will come down to we "hunters" if anything is going to be done for the pheasant population in Iowa. We are the one that care. Nate, where is Todd Bogenschultz in this? Pheasants Forever? and the IDNR?
I am wondering if through this forum we can begin to unite as "hunters" and get our names, addresses, and phone numbers organized to begin the process of suggesting we be included in these decisions and the decision-making process. It has got to start somewhere???
nstric
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I have someone very close to me on the floor in both the House and Senate. Best we can tell, the above names are NOT at all {hopefully 'yet'} involved.
I'm working on tracking down the authors of the proposed bill, etc. As of now, I only know it to have originally from a representative in NE Iowa . . . that resides near Dorchester.
As I learn more, I will share.
captaincoot
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All ten of us will guide them in the right direction. Go buy a 1000 dollar diner plate at one of their fund raisers will do more. They might actually listen. They'll just wipe their a$$ with the list of angry voters. Iowa's a joke remember the hog vote did alot of good they listened to corperate ag. why? they spend money to get these idiots elected. Hell the sooner the last pheasant is shot in Iowa the better
Then they got what they wanted all along one crappy smelling state with a bunch of illegal workers.
Then they got what they wanted all along one crappy smelling state with a bunch of illegal workers.
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KBell
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Under New Management?
Anyone following the new proposals and meetings the IDNR is holding on our deer management and proposed changes in our hunting regulations?
It does make me feel they are "reacting" rather than being "proactive" to our wildlife management in Iowa. Gives me a bad feeling about pheasants and their management in Iowa for the future.
Anyone following the new proposals and meetings the IDNR is holding on our deer management and proposed changes in our hunting regulations?
It does make me feel they are "reacting" rather than being "proactive" to our wildlife management in Iowa. Gives me a bad feeling about pheasants and their management in Iowa for the future.
I see in the Register today the legislature is going forward with a stocking plan of pheasants in southern Iowa, "to study if stocking is a feasible way to boost pheasant numbers".
Stocking, really? All they have to do is listen to the biologists, you know the people who use science to make decisions, or look to the experiences of basically every state east of us who has stocked pheasants. They would see that stocking is a put and take proposition, not a way to rebuild wild populations.
Pheasants were present here in great numbers but have disappeared under the twin attack of bad weather and loss of habitat. Putting stocked birds back into the same habitat won't fix the problem.
The truth is stocking is easier than facing the facts that habitat is shrinking everyday with CRP getting reduced and fence rows disappearing. Bottom line, without habitat pheasants can't make it.
Worst of all the legislative action draws attention away from habitat and makes it seem like the cause of the demise of pheasants in Iowa is outside our control. It's a bad move.
Stocking, really? All they have to do is listen to the biologists, you know the people who use science to make decisions, or look to the experiences of basically every state east of us who has stocked pheasants. They would see that stocking is a put and take proposition, not a way to rebuild wild populations.
Pheasants were present here in great numbers but have disappeared under the twin attack of bad weather and loss of habitat. Putting stocked birds back into the same habitat won't fix the problem.
The truth is stocking is easier than facing the facts that habitat is shrinking everyday with CRP getting reduced and fence rows disappearing. Bottom line, without habitat pheasants can't make it.
Worst of all the legislative action draws attention away from habitat and makes it seem like the cause of the demise of pheasants in Iowa is outside our control. It's a bad move.
wow, once again lawmakers show their stupidity. i guess these idiots think doing something is better than nothing.......sad and a waste of taxpayer money. to boot!
KBell
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I read the article today about stocking in the DMR.
Too bad they wouldn't just donate the cash to a decent charity. It would do much more good in the long run!
I do not understand why our current and retired Iowa wildlife biologists and IDNR personnel with the help of our pheasant forever Iowa chapters are not suggesting or even demanding that they focus their legislative attention on habitat and the start of a enrollment program concerning habitat. If they are going to throw monies at this, let all of us help them throw it!
The article stated that with decent weather the birds could get back to a 1 million rooster harvest within a couple of years in Iowa because the habitat is there. Seriously, are these people sane?
We have experienced a serious decline in the pheasant nesting habitat the last few years in addition to weather. That is what has made either so devastating--the fact they are happening together. I pray some common sense enters the picture here---soon!
I read the article today about stocking in the DMR.
Too bad they wouldn't just donate the cash to a decent charity. It would do much more good in the long run!
I do not understand why our current and retired Iowa wildlife biologists and IDNR personnel with the help of our pheasant forever Iowa chapters are not suggesting or even demanding that they focus their legislative attention on habitat and the start of a enrollment program concerning habitat. If they are going to throw monies at this, let all of us help them throw it!
The article stated that with decent weather the birds could get back to a 1 million rooster harvest within a couple of years in Iowa because the habitat is there. Seriously, are these people sane?
We have experienced a serious decline in the pheasant nesting habitat the last few years in addition to weather. That is what has made either so devastating--the fact they are happening together. I pray some common sense enters the picture here---soon!
Maybe the harvest could get to a million if they stock 3 million and after the varmints eat 2 million then the hunters could get the rest! Personally I think they have a better chance at shooting a million deer. Where's that money coming from anyway, I thought all the states and Feds were broke.
Well said Jack & Ken. I hunted in SD this fall with a couple of guys from Iowa and all they wanted to blame the pheasant dropoff was due to poor weather. Both guys were farmers and were also employed in the ag industry. Neither one was willing to admit the farming practices had anything to do with the drop although they both admitted there were changes happening.
We have legislators here in MN they propose all kinds of crazy changes in laws that have no scientific backing either. Hopefully PF, and your upland specialist put an end to this foolish legislation and stocking program.
We have legislators here in MN they propose all kinds of crazy changes in laws that have no scientific backing either. Hopefully PF, and your upland specialist put an end to this foolish legislation and stocking program.
well, you know, politicians know better than their constituents, as to what they need and should be allowed.....