<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Clearly, KS, NE, and SD at least, have lower deer densities than Iowa, but KS makes 32,000 any-sex tags available, while NE & SD have no NR tag quotas! </div></div>
I would hope that these are not the states for which Iowa's deer herd management programs are to be benchmarked.
Getting back to an earlier post or two:
Public Sq. Miles - Deer Herd
844 - 330,000 - IA
1,548 - 325,000 - NE
2,262 - 350,000 - KS
2,895 - 750,000 - IL
I hated stats in college so I will refrain from some complex analysis of the above numbers. However, it does appear that resident Iowa non-landowner hunters certainly do have a reason to be concerned about changes in hunting regulations which will contribute to increased land access issues. It cannot be argued that an increase in the NR quota will contribute to reduced land access opportunities for Iowa resident hunters.
PS - I am all for an increase in resident tag costs to help the funding of our DNR. Wished it would have passed this year.