Doe harvest registry 11/20/2024 1:47:00 PM View Count 416 Hunters interested in working with farmers to harvest additional does are encouraged to sign up with the Iowa Doe Harvest Registry. The Registry has been a resource that the Iowa DNR has offered to farmers since the mid-2000s, but is now easier to access.
Last chance to hunt deer until fall 1/11/2024 5:02:00 PM View Count 4064 Iowa’s final deer seasons are now open - the Population Management January Antlerless Season and the Excess Tag January Antlerless Season.
With shotgun seasons over, deer hunting shifts to late season mode 12/20/2023 6:41:00 AM View Count 8322 With the two shotgun seasons now in the books, Iowa’s deer hunting shifts to a more solitary endeavor with the opening of the late muzzleloader season and the reopening of the archery season.
Hunters harvest nearly 110,000 deer during 2022-23 season 2/7/2023 8:06:00 PM View Count 9497 Iowa’s 2022 deer harvest increased seven percent over the 2021 season, due, in part to the new Excess Tag January Antlerless Season approved by the Iowa Legislature last spring.
Licenses for excess tag January antlerless season go on sale Jan. 11 1/10/2023 4:19:00 PM View Count 12256 Deer licenses for the excess tag January antlerless season will go on sale beginning at midnight on Jan. 11, for counties with unsold county antlerless licenses.
January antlerless deer season to be held in five Iowa counties 12/20/2021 9:16:00 AM View Count 12064 Iowa hunters have the opportunity to hunt deer in Allamakee, Appanoose, Decatur, Wayne and Winneshiek counties beginning Jan. 11, 2022, after the threshold was met to hold the January antlerless season.
January antlerless deer season begins Friday in four counties 1/10/2019 8:24:00 AM View Count 8267 The special January antlerless deer season will open in Allamakee, Clayton, Wayne and Appanoose counties this Friday. Of those four counties, only Allamakee County has licenses remaining – the other three have sold out.