Saturday, the opener for the first shotgun season for Iowa deer hunters, kicks off the 60th anniversary of Iowa’s deer season.
Like many other wildlife species, deer were pretty well wiped out by European settlement and overhunting by 1900. Slowly recovering, there was still more than a decade of controversy before the first season was approved across 45 counties in 1953. With a herd estimated at 12,000-15,000 ...
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