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Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Drivers stay alert for deer movement

Drivers are advised to stay alert as they travel Iowa’s roadsides over the coming weeks.

Display Date
September 26, 2023
WMA & Places to Hunt and Shoot
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Popular wildlife area emerges from historic ‘Flood of ‘93’

West Fork Wildlife Area in Palo Alto County was developed after the historic flood of 1993, then expanded after the floods of 2018 and 2019.

Display Date
September 19, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife

See You at the Iowa State Fair!

Visit the DNR Building at the Iowa State Fair for a chance to win prizes, enjoy the popular fish aquariums, talk to DNR experts, and more!

Display Date
August 27, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife

How Do You Outdoors? Visit the Iowa DNR building at the Iowa State Fair for a chance to win prizes and more

Visit the Iowa DNR building at the Iowa State Fair, August 10 - 20, for a chance to win prizes, talk to DNR experts, attend an outdoor-themed presentation.

Display Date
August 9, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Central Iowa birding opportunities abound at Chichaqua - Neal Smith Bird Conservation Area

An estimated 800 million birds migrate through Iowa in the spring, and up to one billion in the fall, putting Iowa in the top 5 in the country for volume.

Display Date
July 5, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Work at Towhead Lake supports grassland species, upland gamebirds

Towhead Lake was once a natural shallow lake, with a network of connected wetlands, considered sovereign land by the state highway commission.

Display Date
June 20, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Long-term project is bringing prairie back to hard to get to places of the Loess Hills

“Limb’n and chunk’n in pieces your swampers can move,” yelled Doug Chafa in what sounded like secret code known only to the 30 or so select people

Display Date
June 6, 2023
Hunting - Deer
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Fawning season is here, deer are on the move

The first few weeks of June marks the peak of the deer fawning season.

Display Date
May 23, 2023
Chronic Wasting Disease
Hunting - Deer
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Annual surveillance confirms 96 deer and three new counties for chronic wasting disease

With the addition of Jasper County, chronic wasting disease has again come into central Iowa.

Display Date
May 16, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Midwest black bear population may start calling parts of Iowa home down the road

There’s a pretty good chance that, in the next several weeks, Northeast Iowa will be visited by a few wandering black bears ahead of the breeding season.

Display Date
May 9, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
Vol Wildlife Monitoring

National Amphibian Week is May 7-13

Chorus frogs along with other frogs, toads and salamanders are being recognized during National Amphibian Week, May 7-13.

Display Date
May 2, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Leave wildlife babies where they belong --- In the wild

It's as predictable as May flowers - from border to border, the Wildlife Baby Season has arrived in Iowa.

Display Date
April 18, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
Recycling
State Parks

Earth Day—Saving the earth one small step at a time

Figuring out what you can do to help the planet can seem overwhelming.

Display Date
April 18, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Get weekly wildflower bloom reports in your inbox

Enjoy Mother Nature's show of spring beauties with Iowa DNR's new weekly woodland wildflower bloom report.

Display Date
April 10, 2023
Iowa's Wildlife
News Release

Plan your spring wildflower walk with new bloom report

Experience the best of Iowa’s spring season with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) new weekly woodland wildflower bloom report.

Display Date
April 5, 2023

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