Big Mill Creek to Stock Only Brown Trout This Season
Jackson County Iowa changes trout stocking to brown trout on Big Mill Creek with catchable browns stocked twice monthly from April to June and September to November. No July August stocking due to warmth. Little Mill and Brush Creek receive rainbows. South Fork remains brook trout with artificial lures only.
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Big Mill Creek
Jackson County
Jerry Hudson
Iowa Conservation Commission
Manchester
Big Mill
Hudson
Little Mill
Brush Creek
South Fork
Little
Bellevue
Andrew
Iowa
Outdoor Roundup on Iowa license changes and workshops
Iowa boat licenses expire Thursday and run for two years with renewal in odd years. Fees remain $9 for motor or sail boats and $5 for human powered craft. Six hunter safety workshops planned statewide in April begin at 6 30 p m lasting four hours. Eastern Iowa sessions April 5 6 in Backbone State Park and Washington with others in Spencer Guthrie County Hampton and Granger. Donald Claassen buys Dennis P Roberts Gun Shop in Des Moines and is a former Cedar Rapids shop associate. White Pine Group of the Iowa Sierra Club meets today in McGregor with an outing to Bloody Run Conservation Park to oppose Highway 18 rerouting near the Mississippi River bridge due to wildlife and traffic concerns.
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Iowa
County Recorder's Office
Iowa Conservation Commission
Backbone State Park District
East Entrance of
Park
Strawberry Point
Dundee
Law Enforcement Center
Washington
Spencer
Guthrie County
Hampton
Granger
White Pine
Iowa Sierra Club
Red Cedar Inn
McGregor
Bloody Run Conservation Park
Mississippi River
Marquette
Bloody Run Park
Log Cabin Workshops At Minnesota Trailbound This Spring
Minnesota Trailbound will run log cabin workshops this spring and summer. Ten day sessions start April 1 and run to June 17 focusing on scribe fit or Scandinavian construction. Two week courses begin July 16 and August 13 at base camp in Superior National Forest near Isabella. Call 1 612 822 5955 to register.
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Minnesota
Minnesota Trailbound
Superior National Forest
Isabella
Minn
Planning for a Big Game Hunt Out West with Expert Gene Lee
Gene Lee of Wilderness Ranch and Lodge in Hungry Horse Montana offers first time big game hunters planning tips. He urges choosing states, requesting license info, and hiring an outfitter, with early planning and referrals. He notes 17 000 nonresident Montana elk licenses and advises the $275 combination license for elk deer bear small game waterfowl and fishing. He compares success rates with and without outfitters and describes hunting styles and meat handling practices for remote wilderness hunts.
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Gene Lee
Wilderness Ranch
Hungry Horse, Mont
Lee
Iowa
Cedar Falls
Bob Marshall
Glacier National Park
Montana
Montana Fish and Game Department
National Rifle Association
NRA
Montana Big Game Season Open With Guides Not Mandatory
Montana opens its big game gun season October 25 through November 27. Outfitter Gene Lee notes weekly snowfall and freezing nights with above freezing days early in the season. Guides are not required in Montana, but guides must be provided by outfitters. youths must be 12 to obtain a big game license, with safety courses for ages 12 to 18. A combined big game license costs 275 dollars, with separate deer licenses available at 102 dollars in some areas. Public land covers about 70 percent, private land requires written permission.
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Rocky Mountain
Montana
Gene Lee
Wyoming
Colorado
Canadian
Lee
Montana Fish and Game Department
the Gazette
Rails to Trails to honor 3 Gold Spike awardees
Iowa Rails to Trails will honor three Linn County supporters of the Cedar Valley Nature Trail at tonight’s annual meeting at the Knights of Columbus Halls in Marion. A 6 30 hospitality hour precedes dinner and board elections along with the presentation of three Gold Spike awards and tributes to contributors.
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Iowa
Linn County
Cedar Valley
Waterloo
Mary Conbellick
Iowa Rails To Trails
Marion
Backfired deer relocation leaves Angel Island herd decimated
Efforts to save 203 deer moved from Angel Island State Park, California, backfired as 85 percent died within a year. The plan aimed to reduce overpopulation, but legal challenges and protections halted hunting efforts, with radio-tagged deer revealing causes including malnutrition, predators, vehicles, poachers, and unknown factors.
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Angel Island State Park
California
The
Wildlife Management Institute
Angel Island
California Fish and Game Department
Dale McCullough
University of California
Institute
Florida
Smithsonian Institution
Virginia
Iowa House approves hike in fishing and hunting fees
The Iowa House passed a bill 70 to 22 raising state fishing and hunting licenses from six to eight dollars and trout stamps from five to eight. Commercial licenses jump from twenty five to two hundred. The measure moves to the Senate and would add about two point four million dollars over two years to the fish and wildlife trust fund.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Senate
Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund
Bow hunters call Montana elk season a paradise
In Montana the archery elk season runs Sept 10 to Oct 16 and may be combined with gun season. Gene Lee of Hungry Horse urges bow hunters to go solo, noting roads and forest service access, meat extraction tips, and lodge options. The big game license costs $275 plus a $6 bow permit.
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Gene Lee
Hungry Horse
Mont
Lee
Forest Service
Safeboating Classes Sponsored in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Cedar Rapids Flotilla offers two safe boating courses at Kennedy High School Cedar Rapids on Mondays 7 to 9 and April 4 to May 16, and at Iowa City West High School on Wednesdays 7 to 9 from April 8 to May 18. Each class costs 8.50 dollars.
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U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
Cedar Rapids Flotilla
Kennedy High School
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Iowa City West High School
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Hunter Workshops
Donald Claassen
Dennis P. Roberts
Des
Sierra Meeting
Yellowstone National Park
Jim Mayer Gazette
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Department of Fish and Game
Sixth Ave
Helena
Utah — Division of Wildlife Resources
W.N. Temple
Salt Lake City
Utah
Idaho
S. Walnut
Box
Boise
Hiawatha
Center Point
Lafayette
Bo Cameron
Iowa Rails To Trails Development
Bow
Hunter’s Paradise
Mt. Vernon Rd
Turkey
Wass
66Th Avenue
General Motors
GM Quality Service Parts
Rapids
Chevrolet
First Ave. SE
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