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Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:52:17 GMT
DES MOINES (AP) -- A years-old debate over dove hunts in Iowa took a new twist this week when the House determined a state agency overstepped its authority by banning lead shot ammunition during the hunts. The Iowa House voted 68-27 for a ...
DES MOINES — The state Natural Resources Commission ban on lead shot was torpedoed by the Iowa House Thursday when it voted to nullify the rule, 73-27. The proposed change was sought by the Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee, which ...
In my opinion, this is an attempt from some of the anti-hunting crowd trying to stop hunting. If hunters are forced to use non-toxic shot to dove hunt, fewer people will take part due to the extra expense of non-toxic shot, and the fact steel ...
The vote on whether to ban lead shot for mourning dove hunting could turn as much on a legislative branch vs. executive branch power struggle as on the issue itself. Many lawmakers think the Iowa Natural Resource Commission, which is appointed ...
Last year the Iowa Natural Resource Commission voted to ban lead ammunition in hunting mourning doves. Commission members know small lead pellets contained in shotgun shells end up on the ground. Birds mistake them for grit and seeds ...
DES MOINES --- The issue of whether to allow or ban the use of lead shot during Iowa's dove-hunting season returned to the political firing line at the Statehouse Thursday. Separate House and Senate subcommittees voted in support of a joint resolution ...
A few years later, when she was ready to pull the trigger, she shot a deer on each of the first two days she hunted. In the intervening years, she has hunted turkey, duck, swan, dove, quail and, most recently, bear. Shepherd went on her first ...
Gov. Terry Branstad and state Sen. Jerry Behn (the newly elected minority leader in the Iowa Senate) say that Iowans must be given the opportunity to vote on a matter “they care so passionately about” — that would be a constitutional ...
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