Iowa opens crow hunting season with no bag limit
Forest and Stream notes Iowa's first crow season runs daily from sunrise to sunset through Feb 25 with no bag limit. The article traces crow status from pests to protected songbirds to game birds, including legislative battles and a late shift by the Conservation Commission to establish a season.
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Crow Season Returns as Winter Hunts for Crows Begin
The author recalls growing up crow hunting in southern Minnesota near Rochester in the 1950s. He describes roosting crows, early brag shots, and using a string-triggered Zulu 12 gauge to shoot at a hog carcass from a half mile away. Crows served as duck blind practice and filler when other seasons end.
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Minnesota
Rochester
Crowdom
Winter Film Festival Opens at Effigy Mounds
The 19th annual Winter Film Festival at Effigy Mounds National Monument begins today with no admission charge funded by the Eastern National Park and Monument Association. Showings run 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends and 1 p.m. Mondays for 10 weeks, featuring Time for Survival and Mark Twain: When I Was a Boy and a rotating lineup of nature and science films through March 8.
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Effigy Mounds National Monument
Thomas Manson
Eastern National Park and Monument Association
Time For Survival
National Audubon Society
Mark Twain
Sierra Club Cedar-Wapsi Group to Meet Thursday
The Iowa Sierra Club Cedar-Wapsi Group holds a 7:30 p.m. general meeting at Ambroz Recreation Center on Mount Vernon Road SE. A slide program titled A Tale of Two Rivers will be shown, highlighting River Country Voices' river basin plans and future use options.
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Iowa Sierra Club
Ambroz Recreation Center
Mount Vernon Road
River Country Voices
Mississippi River
Seasons End Sunday for Iowa Game and Traps
Iowa hunting seasons wrap up this Sunday with pheasant squirrel and jackrabbit closing January 3. Raccoon badger oppositm striped skunk weasel mink and muskrat trapping also end Sunday. Superintendent Bob Barratt notes over a million roosters killed in the 58 day pheasant season.
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Iowa
Bob Barratt
Iowa Conservation Commission
Kirkwood Hosts Birds of Prey Workshop and Eagle Search
Kirkwood Community College presents a birds of prey workshop Monday Jan 11 at Linn Hall 7 to 8 30 pm with TV broadcasts in Anamosa Iowa City Vinton and Washington. Tuition 5 dollars. An Eagles search tour Saturday Jan 16 visits E B Lyons Nature Preserve and Mines of Spain near Dubuque with 15 dollars, plus an overnight nature study Jan 16 17 at Kent Park near Tiffin with 12 dollars. Registration by phone 398 5412 or 1 800 332 8833 for Cedar Rapids Marion area travelers.
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Vinton
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Mines of Spain Preserve
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Tiffin
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Canada Goose to Star in Indian Creek Armchair Adventure
The Indian Creek Nature Center hosts an Armchair Adventure Sunday at 2 p.m. The event features the film Wild Geese Calling and a follow up talk by Al Weaver of Cedar Rapids about Hawkeye Sportsmen's Club efforts to introduce Canada geese in the Cedar Rapids area. Admission is 1.25 for members and 1.75 for non members.
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