Santa's reindeer proven swift powerful load haulers
Santa’s team relies on agile reindeer adapted to snow they pull heavy loads for long hours and reach high speeds as they traverse frosty roofs. Lot of details about their size endurance antlers and hard padded feet explain why they suit a cold climate and sled pulling role.
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Santa
Iona
Rudolph
Europe
Asia
Ries
Reis
North America
Canada
United States
Alaska
Greenland
Siberia
Lapps
Dasher
Dancer
Iowa Hawkeye duo close waterfowl season on Coralville Reservoir
Todd Berkenpas of Iowa Hawkeye fame and Dan Johnston of Solon finished with a full limit of mallards and three geese on the last day of duck season. They hunted from a blind boat built by Dan and his father Dr. Dave Johnston Hawkeye team physician.
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Todd Berkenpas
Iowa
Hawkeye
Dan Johnston
Solon
Coralville
Dan
Dave Johnston
Linn County Izaak Walton League elects officers
The Linn County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America elected Mark Hughes as president for 1984, with Bruce Jolson as vice president, Robert Willenberg as secretary, and Terry Martin as treasurer. Past president Jerry Leavy remains. новые
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Linn County
Izaak Walton
Snowmobile Safety Courses Planned in Coralville Lake Area
Iowa Snowmobile Safety Course enrollments open at Coralville Lake with two sessions January 5 and 7, plus a Lamont Community Building class December 27 to 29. Participants must attend both Coralville sessions for certification, costs include $3 for materials, and contacts are Kathy Soska and Claude McFarlane. A youth oriented wildlife booklet is offered by the Wildlife Management Institute for $1.50.
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Iowa
Coralville Lake
Kathy Soska
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Iowa State Conservation Commission
Lamont
Claude McFarlane
McFarlane
Nature
Wildlife Management Institute
14Th St. NW
Washington, D.C
Colorado State University
Delwin E. Benson
Iowa Hunting Seasons Open With Limits and Date Endings
The notice lists hunting seasons for Iowa species including cock pheasants open through Jan 1 with a 3 daily limit and 6 possession, quail open through Jan 31 with 8 and 16 limits, gray partridge open through Jan 31 north of I-80 with 6 and 12, ruffed grouse open through Jan 31 3 and 6, cottontail rabbits through Feb 29 with 10 and 20, squirrel through Jan 31 no hour limits 6 and 12, crows Jan 2 through Feb 25 half hour before sunrise to sunset no limit, other seasons closed trapping, mink muskrat raccoon striped skunk possum and badger open through Jan 15, beaver open through Apr 15 except at refuges where noon Dec 3 through Feb 26, red and gray fox open through Jan 22, coyote continuous open, otter and spotted skunk closed.
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State
Marion
Upper Mississippi Wildlife and Fish
Audubon Society postpones meeting to January ninth
The Cedar Rapids Audubon Society will meet Monday January ninth at St. Pauls United Methodist Church. Refreshments begin at 7 p.m. and the program at 7 30. Members may bring up to 10 slides from the past summer to share. A field trip to the Davenport Mississippi River area to view eagles is planned with Bery Layton as leader.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Wild Turkey Federation Returns to Cedar Rapids
The Iowa Wild Turkey Federation revives its annual convention in Cedar Rapids at the Sheraton Inn on March 2 and 3 1984. The group previously met in the city last winter.
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Iowa Wild Turkey Federation
Cedar Rapids
Sheraton Inn
Great Lakes fish rebound aided by lamprey control
Marine biologists in the United States and Canada report progress restoring trout and salmon in the Great Lakes. The sea lamprey invasion and pollution had decimated game fish. A chemical that disrupts lamprey larvae development reduced their population by about 80 percent without harming other fish.
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Chicago
U.S
Canada
Great Lakes
Poster winner Daniel Harris earns merit in 1983 NHF Day
Daniel Duane Harris of Camanche Iowa wins a Merit Award in the senior division of the 1983 National Hunting and Fishing Day Poster Contest. He receives a fifty dollar U S Savings Bond. The contest deadline for 1984 posters is May 1 and NHF Day Headquarters lists Riverside Connecticut as the contact.
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Daniel Duane Harris
Camanche
Iowa
NHF Day
Riverside
Conn
Animated battery decoys eyed to improve next season
Canvasback Inc of Memphis unveils battery operated decoys that swim pause and drift like real ducks. Inventor Pete McCrory says the units require no propeller or remote control and cost about 149.50 dollars each.
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Canvasback Inc
Memphis
McCrory
Hazleton Park bears new name Tana
Hazleton fifth grader Shawn Ryan won the Buchanan County Conservation Board name-the-bear contest for Fontana Park bear. Tana, born in Minneapolis and purchased as a pet, is the park’s sole bear and will receive a $50 savings bond.
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yadZeuereeread
Wwa
Bureau
Hazleton
Fontana Park
Shawn Ryan
Buchanan County Conservation Board
Independence
Fontana
Ryan
Harry Graves
Tana
Iowa County Conservation Board
Graves
Minneapolis
Des Moines
Iowa
Deb Wiley
Chicagoland Outdoor Show Attracts Big Attendance Jan 27 29
The Chicagoland Sport Fishing Travel and Outdoors Show runs January 27 28 and 29 at the O Hare Expo Center Chicago one of the largest shows of its kind in the nation featuring fishing boating and travel exhibits.
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Chicagoland
O’hare Expo Center
Chicago
Safe ice thickness guidance for winter activities
Iowa safety coordinator advises minimum clear ice thickness of four inches for ice fishing and five to six inches for snowmobiles, noting honeycombed ice is weaker and river currents create hidden thin spots. He recommends nearshore hole-cutting to test and emphasizes caution in subfreezing conditions. Death can occur quickly in cold water.
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Sonny Satre
Iowa Conservation Commission
Satre
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