DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Iowa officials say this year’s deer harvest is slightly down this year with a little more than two weeks left in the season.
The Quad-City Times reports (https://bit.ly/2ipH7s1 ) that Iowa’s second shotgun season ended Sunday. Hunters have until midnight Monday to report their harvests.
Between both shotgun seasons, hunters reported 5 percent fewer deer than last year’s seasons. Andrew Norton of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says hunters purchased 2,118 fewer licenses, or tags, for the shotgun seasons this year compared to last year.
In total, hunters in Iowa have harvested 87,722 deer this year, which is about 4 percent lower than last year’s count at this time. Hunters harvested 105,401 deer through all of last year’s seasons.
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Information from: Quad-City Times, https://www.qctimes.com
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