In Iowa a land owner can applyget land owner anterless tags that cost $2 each and/or deprivation(?) tags that I don't think costs the landowner anything. As I said while only hunting 4 days (two weekends) I saw over 400 deer on 10 different properties all within the same county. I have heard from a local land owner that it is next to impossible to get the DNR to issue deprivation tags. Iowa has many many deer in a few counties. The DNRare consentrating their current efforts on the bottom2 teir counties which borders Missouri by making special seasons and extending a few seasons already in place.
For instance during the January special season a hunter can basically use most anything to kill a anterless deer which includes rifles above .24 (usually not allowed in Iowa), shotguns, handguns, bow & muzzleloader. I believesome counties in the central Iowa are being missed even though they havejust as many deer.

In Iowa there is a program called HUSH (Help Us Stop Hunger). A hunter can donate deer to certain lockers (they are listed in the Iowa Hunting Regulations) which process the deer and the meat is given to needy Iowans through the Iowa Food Bank. The lockers are reimbursed through a mandatory $1 addition to every hunting license purchased in Iowa. Most lockers in Iowa only accept boneless deer, but I do not know if that alsoincludes donated deer.

"Any hunter can donate any legally taken deer of any sex from any season. Just take the field-dressed deer to any one of the following lockers. Check www.iowahush.com for updates." (Copied from Iowa Hunting Regulations).