What a crock.When the insurance industry started pushing for more deer to be killed in this state hunters stepped up to the plate and the DNR started offering more seasons, huge amounts of doe tags, and a way to get rid of all the extra deer people wanted to shoot but had no room for through the HUSH program.Many lockers in the state now except deer through this program and the meat goes to feed the hungry.Hunters for thier part killed record numbers of does every year since the tags became available, turned the tides and for the first time since deer season was established killed more does then bucks yearly.Weve also funded the Hush program without help of any sort from the same insurance industry that lobbied for this deer kill off with monies added on to the cost of our licenses.

By even suggesting contraceptives in areas like Iowa City theyre ignoring the real problem, to many urban areas and private NR owned lands are becoming huge deer sanctuaries.Nothing against NR hunters intended but the current licensing system many of them are lucky to get to hunt land they own here maybe every 2 or 3 years, much of the land sits idle in the meantime and becomes affective deer refuges.It doesnt take deer long to recognize these places as safe areas.Iowa City chose not to let the DNR do thier job in the city and manage the deer numbers through hunting, they opted for spending vast amounts of money hiring sharp shooters instead.They footed the bill for it so its thier problem if its not effective.But getting the state involved in this type of craps going to mean either the state or DNR will footing the bill for a program thats ineffective and has very short term results.Im gonna email some of my elected officials now, this just pisses me off[:@][:'(]