New chief leads Chickadee Checkoff expansion in Iowa
Doug Reeves named non-game wildlife research biologist for the Iowa Conservation Commission succeeding David Newhouse. Laura Jackson will replace Reeves as urban wildlife biologist, as the Chickadee Checkoff broadens donations and funding for projects from eagle nesting habitats to barn owl reintroductions and urban wildlife efforts across Iowa.
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Iowa Conservation Commission
David Newhouse
Laura Jackson
Reeves
Commission
Newhouse
Iowa
Michigan
National Audubon Society
Bruce Ehresman
Boone Research Station
Jackson
Colorado State University
Fort Collins
Colo
Iowa Commission
Des Moines
Bondurant
Baxter
Coggan
Garnaville
Decorah
Marengo
Greeley
Morley
Iowa Conservationist
Iowa State University
Ames
Ledges State Park
Boone
Mount Pleasant
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Hunting seasons close as January ends with few opens left
Quail partridge grouse and squirrel seasons end Thursday leaving crow rabbit and coyote as open. Crow ends Feb 15 rabbit Feb 28, coyote year round. The note also recalls ice fishing on Lake Mille Lacs Jan 13 14 with four walleyes, and local pheasant sightings near Rockwell Collins after weekend weather. Camp Courageous offers ski gear rentals at 3 per person for two hours.
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Craig
Brian Kimm
Blairstown
Lake Mille Lacs
Minn
Courageous
Iowa
Monticello
Pictured Rocks Park
Fish Seminar Planned Here in February
Art Moraski's Fishing Team returns to Cedar Rapids for a seminar and a fishing school. The seminar is Thursday Feb 7 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Eagle's Club with tickets 6 dollars for adults and 3 for under 18 or 1 dollar off in advance from Fins and Feathers. The fishing school is Tuesday Feb 12 from 6 p.m. to 10 30 p.m. at the Moose Lodge with a price of 30 dollars for adults or 45 dollars for adult and youth. enrollment limited to 50. Moraski, a national walleye tournament winner, writer and photographer, co leads with John Gilkerson, professional walleye guide. For details enroll contact Fins and Feathers.
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Art Moraski
Cedar Rapids
Eagle’s Club
Seventh Ave. SE
Third Ave. SE
Moose Lodge
Second St. SE
Moraski
Ft. Pierre
S. D
John Gilkerson
Kestrel 1985 Non-Game Certificate Sale Start
Iowa Conservation Commission offers 5000 numbered reproductions of a kestrel photo by Lowell Washburn for 5 dollars to fund the non game program. The image, on the January 1985 Iowa Conservationist cover, shows a kestrel with a deer mouse and notes kestrels as Iowa’s only falcon. Jim Mayer.
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Iowa
Iowa Conservation Commission
Lowell Washburn
Hancock
Winnebago County
The
Iowa Conservationist
Commission
Ron Andrews
Clear Lake
Cedar Rapids
Weekend fisherees draw crowds across Eastern Iowa
Postponements and new dates mark a busy weekend with four fisherees in Eastern Iowa. The Red Cedar Chapter Izaak Walton League rescheduled at Rodgers Park near Vinton, Volga Lake event moved to Feb 3, Cedar Rapids Bass Masters host at Pleasant Creek near Palo, Lake Iowa event near Millersburg features prizes and drawings, and more activities by Allamakee County Sportsmen's Club continuing their 15th edition.
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Iowa
Red Cedar
Izaak Walton League
Winton
Rodgers Park
Vinton
Highway 218
Volga Lake
Frog Hollow
Volga River
Fayette
West Union
Larry’s Archery
Lawrence
Lake Iowa
Millersburg
Iowa County
Ladora
Interstate 80
Allamakee County
Fourteenth annual ice fisheree set for No bles Island
A Sunday ice fisheree at No Bles Island off Highway 364 near Harpers Ferry runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with prize categories and a lunch wagon on site. Drawings total over $800 in prizes. Other fisherees include Lake Gremore Prairie du Chien Wis Feb 2–3 and North Linn Fish and Game Club at Camp Wapsie Y north of Central City on Feb 10.
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Nobles Island
Harpers Ferry
Lake Gremore
Prairie du Chien
Wis
North Linn Fish and Game Club
Camp Wapsie Y
Central City
Camp Wyoming hosts winter workshop in Wyoming Iowa
A winter workshop sponsored by Clinton and Dubuque County conservation boards Area 9 Education Agency and the Iowa Conservation Education Council will run Feb 1 to Feb 2 at Camp Wyoming three miles east of Wyoming. Topics include winter ecology, forecasting weather, glacial geology, cross country skiing, bird survival, animal tracking, solar energy, and a dramatized piece Louis Baron Spirit of the Voyageur. Contact Larry L. Dolphin at 319 847 7203 for details.
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Decorah
J. N
Ding” Darling
Iowa
Luther College
Centennial Union Gallery
Darling
Franklin Roosevelt
U. S. Biological Survey
Wyoming
Camp
Clinton and
America
Louis Baron
Monmouth
Larry L. Dolphin
Clinton County Conservation Board
Iowa Implements 3 Day Fishing Licenses For All
Iowa introduces three day fishing licenses for residents and non residents. Residents pay four fifty while non residents pay five fifty. Yearlong permits cost eight fifty for residents and fifteen fifty for non residents.
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Iowa
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Lost Nation
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McGregor
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Mar- Mac
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Ding
Dave Schulte
Gibson
Ceda
Williams
PON
Rapids Tire
Kestrel
Pleasant Creek
Palo
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Carver-Hawkeye Arena
General Motors
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