Deer hunting season started Oct. 1 in Iowa, and in several western counties, hunters can only harvest bucks. These restrictions have been increasing for the past few years in response to a ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has received around 10,000 non-resident deer hunting applications and has issued 6,000 licenses this year.

The Iowa DNR continues to see increased numbers for two deer killing diseases and are now trying to find best practices to contain spread ahead the 2025 hunting season.

The ISU researchers who worked on the report calculated that, collectively, specialty croppers in Iowa experience $3.4 million in deer-related losses annually and spend an additional $832,000 per ...

The study says white-tailed deer were abundant when European settlers arrived in Iowa in the early 1800s but by 1880 were rarely seen and in the deer season was legally closed in 1898.

During a series of public meetings in western Iowa the DNR hosted in July, 78% of the more than 250 people who attended said they're unsatisfied with the deer density in this region and 88% ...

White deer in Iowa are rare, Elliot said. All-white deer make up less than 1% of the deer population in Iowa, or as few as one out of every 30,000 deer, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported in 2020.

A study by Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation found that about 21 percent of all deer collisions in Iowa between 2013 and 2022 were in the month of November. The second highest ...