Welcome to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Hunter Education Program! The goals of the DNR Hunter Education Program are as follows:
- Educate Iowans about hunter safety
- Promote hunter safety and ethics
- Train volunteer instructors to teach hunter education
- Continue to keep hunting the safe activity it has become
By providing hunter education to the public, the DNR will help ensure the safety of hunters throughout our state. Continue to promote the ethic's and fair chase, hunter responsibility and landowner relations. Safety, recruitment, and retention of hunters is key to the long tradition of hunting in Iowa's GREAT Outdoors!
Posted: October 22, 2008
The annual gathering of friends and family for the opening of Iowa pheasant hunting season is rich with tradition for more than 100,000 hunters who will be dotting the landscape in their familiar blaze orange hats, vests and jackets at 8 a.m., Oct. 25.
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James Urban, 46, from LeMars, was found guilty of unlawful possession of furbearing animals by a jury and sentenced to 365 days in jail, with all but 120 days suspended. Urban was fined $1,039 which includes surcharges and court costs, assessed $8,050 in liquidated damages, forfeited about $18,000 worth of traps and trapping equipment and had his license suspended until 2024.
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