Question:
Notice to all Iowa deer hunters! The state has just passed more increases to
your fees. Now it will cost a resident $51.00 to harvest a deer. Beginning
July 1 this year the hunting the lic. increases by 34% to $17.00, the deer
tag is $26.00 and the habitat tag is $8.00. All of these are required to
take a deer. Most of this is caused by the North American Hunting Clubs
journalism in two articles misrepresenting the facts comparing res. vs. non
res. costs. They compared the whole cost of the three parts for non res. to the deer
transportation tag only cost for res. "accidentally" omitting the habitat
and hunting lic. fees for residents. Now it is cheaper for a res. of Iowa to
hunt deer in many other states. maybe Iowa wants its residents to
spend their money in other states?
Answer:
Nevada is 24 for license and 25 for a tag if you can get one...and you get
to shoot one deer only. There's another 10 application fee just to apply
for a tag that you may not even get. Then there's a 3 dollar predator fee
and another 2 bucks for something else that they say they do for us..
Your fee structure sounds fair to me...but I don't know what the expenses of
your DNR is to manage the game you hunt. I for one will not complain about
these fees...especially when I launch my boat on a ramp that was paid for by
those fees or harvest a deer that was managed by those funds. Not saying
that you should not complain...just saying I would not.
