Great interview with Jace Elliott. Super impressed with his grasp of the issues that hunters care about.
They cover a ton:
- EHD - and how they responded after getting hit hard last year.
- the positive effect on the resource of keeping crossbows/crossguns out of archery
- harvest limits — 1 vs 3 buck states
- gun hunting the rut
- doe harvest
- differences in other states.
- decreasing habitat
- nonresident access
Two statistics:
1. while Iowa has a very low overall hunter to total land ratio, it has the highest ratio of hunters to deer habitat land in the country.
2. Only 5% of Iowa hunters want crossbows in archery season in Iowa.
They cover a ton:
- EHD - and how they responded after getting hit hard last year.
- the positive effect on the resource of keeping crossbows/crossguns out of archery
- harvest limits — 1 vs 3 buck states
- gun hunting the rut
- doe harvest
- differences in other states.
- decreasing habitat
- nonresident access
Two statistics:
1. while Iowa has a very low overall hunter to total land ratio, it has the highest ratio of hunters to deer habitat land in the country.
2. Only 5% of Iowa hunters want crossbows in archery season in Iowa.
