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News Release

Iowans encouraged to report wild turkey sightings in July and August

Iowa DNR needs help with the wild turkey production survey. In July and August wild turkey sightings are recorded to estimate this year’s nesting rates.

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July 1, 2025
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Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Iowa’s spring turkey season is here

A mild winter followed by timely spring rains has Iowa forests and woodlots leafing out ahead of spring turkey season.

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April 8, 2025
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Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Learn to Hunt program opens registration for wild turkey workshop

Iowa (DNR) is offering a program to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook wild turkey, to those with little to no wild turkey hunting experience.

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March 11, 2025
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Hunting - Turkey
News Release

2024 spring turkey season was one for the record books

The final segment of Iowa’s spring turkey hunting season closed Sunday, ending the spring season with a record harvest of 16,059 birds reported.

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May 14, 2024
Hunting - Turkey
Hunting - Nonresident
News Release

Iowa’s spring turkey season is right around the corner

Coming off record harvests in 2020 and again in 2023, Iowa’s spring turkey hunters could be living in the “good ol’ days.”

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March 26, 2024
Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Review safe hunting practices ahead of spring turkey season

Roughly 35,000 camo-covered hunters in stealth mode will be heading to the timber in the next few weeks for Iowa’s spring turkey season.

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March 26, 2024
Hunter Education
Hunting - Turkey

Learn to Hunt program opens registration for turkey hunting workshops

The Iowa DNR is offering two opportunities to learn skills to adults who have little to no wild turkey hunting experience.

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February 14, 2024
Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Researchers looking for insight into wild turkey population decline

The reintroduction of wild turkeys to Iowa’s landscape has been celebrated as a conservation success story for the past 25 years.

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January 9, 2024
Hunting - Turkey
Vol Wildlife Monitoring
News Release

Counting turkeys

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking for help with its annual wild turkey production survey.

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June 27, 2023
Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Iowa’s spring turkey season is one for the books

Iowa’s wild turkey hunters reported harvesting more than 14,800 birds through the mandatory registration system, an increase of nearly 3,000 since 2022.

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May 16, 2023
Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Iowa’s popular spring turkey hunting seasons only a few weeks away

Thunderous calls from competing Toms trying to out-do one another for the attention from nearby hens, rattles through Iowa’s timber each spring.

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March 21, 2023
Hunting - Turkey
Shooting Ranges

Pattern your turkey gun before hitting the woods this spring

The Olofson Shooting Range is offering three turkey patterning nights at the range:

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March 21, 2023
Hunting - Turkey
Hunter Education

Learn to Hunt program opens registration for wild turkey workshop

The Iowa DNR is offering a program to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook wild turkey to adults with little to no wild turkey hunting experience.

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February 14, 2023
Blog
Hunting - Turkey
News Release

Nature's Spring Trifecta: Morels, Crappies, Turkey

It’s springtime in Van Buren County. And that means three things: turkey, fish and morels.

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April 14, 2015
Hunting - Turkey
Types of Hunting

Turkey Hunting

Learn about turkey hunting dates, regulations, safety, and more for turkey hunting season in Iowa, care of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

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