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Ducks Unlimited, partners surpass important wetlands conservation milestone
Ducks Unlimited
July 17, 2024
For the first time in its 87-year history, Ducks Unlimited has delivered 1 million acres of conservation across North America in a single year thanks to more than a million supporters and partners, including private
Women interested in learning to waterfowl hunt can register for Iowa course
DNR Report
July 17, 2024
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a program to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook waterfowl to women who have little to no waterfowl hunting experience.
“Waterfowl hunting
Fishing regulations to be relaxed at McKinley Lake in Creston, Iowa
DNR Report
July 16, 2024
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is relaxing the fishing regulations at McKinley Lake in Creston. The city of Creston will begin to drain the lake in August as part of a lake restoration
Habitat diversity draws bird watchers, hunters to Iowa’s Copeland Bend Wildlife Area
DNR Report
July 16, 2024
Forty miles south of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River is the 3,500-plus-acre Copeland Bend Wildlife Area, an expansive mix of grasslands and high-quality wetlands constructed after the extensive flooding in 2011, when the
Plans released for Iowa’s 2024 Okoboji Blue Water Festival
Steve Weisman
July 12, 2024
Iowa’s Okoboji Blue Water Festival (OBWF) is less than a month away. This year’s 9th annual event is set for Saturday, Aug.10, at Preservation Plaza green space in Arnolds Park on the shores of West
States debate the credit card tracking of gun-related sales
Associated Press
July 10, 2024
Beginning July 1, a California law required credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun stores in order to track their sales.
Iowa DNR offering program for those interested in learning to trap
DNR Report
July 10, 2024
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a program to teach skills needed to trap furbearers to people with little to no trapping experience.
The workshop will feature knowledge and skill building
New watershed plan improves water quality at Iowa’s Chuck Gipp Decorah Fishery Hatchery
DNR Report
July 9, 2024
Trout need clear and cold water to live and thrive. Sediment flowing into Siewers Spring, the water source for the Chuck Gipp Decorah Fishery Hatchery in Iowa, creates muddy water conditions after larger rainfall events
Iowans encouraged to report wild turkey sightings in July and August
DNR Report
June 28, 2024
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking for help with its annual wild turkey production survey. During the months of July and August wild turkey sightings are recorded to estimate this year’s nesting
