Management of Upland Game Birds in Iowa. A Handbook for Farmers, Sportsmen, Conservationists and Game Wardens, 1932

(1932) Management of Upland Game Birds in Iowa. A Handbook for Farmers, Sportsmen, Conservationists and Game Wardens, 1932. Natural Resources, Department of

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Abstract

If in Iowa ther is t'o be any game for hunting in the future, there must be provided some plan of managing game as a crop. The simplest plan might be for Iowa to open up the state to unrestricted shooting and shoot until the present game supply is gone. But that is not desirable, and it is not game management. A second plan might he to establish enough game farms to produce an annual crop of game to distribute for hunting. But to do that would requite an expenditure so large it would be prohibitive. The sound plan and the one which will be permanent, if it works at all, is to recognize the farmer as the custodian of the game, recognize that in Iowa practically all land is owned privately and that any method of producing and maintaining a game crop, to be successful, must show the farmer how he can provide food and cover for game, and must also provide recognition of the fact that the farmer is entitled to consideration for any effort he makes. toward providing a supply of game. This handbook attempts to give suggestions as to how this latter idea of game management may be accomplished.