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The Des Moines
Ike Newsletter
DES MOINES
CHAPTER NEWSLETTER
DEFENDERS OF SOIL, AIR, WOODS,
WATERS, AND WILDLIFE
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Notes
from President, Tom Holm
The following
excerpts from the Des Moines Register’s Website is, I believe,
worth reiterating to our members.
As
thousands of Iowans spread fall fertilizer on their lawns, Iowa
lake groups and environmentalists are hoping they will join in
using a no-phosphorus fertilizer. The groups are waging a
public relations war on phosphorus, a fertilizer ingredient that
is the single biggest cause of lake mucking algae blooms. While
Iowa groups try persuasion, Minnesota this year outlawed the use
of high-phosphorus fertilizers for residential use. Meanwhile
Iowa’s waters have some of the highest phosphorus levels in the
world, said John Downing, an Iowa State University scientist
studying 132 Iowa lakes. Downing said the state’s residents are
applying phosphorus-rich fertilizer everywhere “even though we
don’t need it”. It’s the issue for lake water quality””, he
said. “Phosphorus is correlated with all the bad things we talk
about at lakes. Toxic algae. How bad they look, how bad they
smell. Bacteria problems.”
Many local
stores sell low or no-phosphorus fertilizers under names such as
Lake ‘N Lawn Saver, Renaissance and Milorganite. Statewide,
many lawn services also have switched to no-phosphorus
fertilizers.
Calendar of
Events
11/9 S.O.S. Meeting 6 pm – 7 pm
11/23 Uncle Ikes – Pizza Party |
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Member
Spends Time With Celebrity Sportsman
Rod Kent, Des
Moines chapter member (and one of our Tuesday night bartenders)
had the honor of driving Tony Dean over 750 miles to speaking
engagements in Cedar Falls, Clear Lake, Fort Dodge, Storm Lake
and Sioux City, where he addressed various sportsmen groups on
current government issues and policies impacting sportsmen
nationwide. Tony Dean is host and producer of “Tony Dean
Outdoors”, a regional television show that airs across the upper
Midwest. He also produces, “Dakota Back Roads”, a daily radio
show airing across both Dakotas and portions of surrounding
states. His TV and radio shows have won over 160 regional and
national programming awards. He is also a member of the North
Dakota and National Fresh water Fishing Halls of Fame and has
received numerous conservation awards at local, state, regional
and national levels as well as being past Honorary President of
the Izaak Walton League. Rod felt it an honor to spend that
much time traveling with a celebrity sportsman such as Tony
Dean.
Door
prizes
After each
program, we give away a couple of door prizes. In order to have
a chance to win, you need to print your name on the back of your
dinner ticket before turning it in. Winners are determined via
a drawing from that night’s dinner tickets. Note: We are
always in need of door prizes for the weekly drawing. See the
Program Chairman, Sonny Satre, if you can donate an item. |
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Menus and Program
Nov. 16 – French
Cut Pork Chop – Program: Doug Cutts, State Trooper, Winter Driving
Tips.
Nov. 23 – BBQ Ribs – Program: John Below, Neal Smith NWR, Public
Hunting on Federal Land.
Nov. 30 – Walleye – Program: Willy Suchy, DNR Wildlife Biologist, Deer
Hunting Outlook.
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
Hunting Seasons
for 2004/2005
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Limits |
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Season |
Daily |
Poss. |
Shooting hours |
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Rabbits |
9/1 - 2/28 |
10 |
20 |
Sunrise to
Sunset |
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Squirrels,
Fox/Gray |
9/1 - 1/31 |
6 |
12 |
No specified
hours |
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Canada geese
(N. zone) |
10/16 - 12/5 |
check regs. |
check regs. |
½ hr before
sunrise |
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(S.
zone) |
10/30 to 12/19 |
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to sunset. |
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Gray
Partridge |
10/9 to 1/31 |
8 |
16 |
8 am to 4:30
pm |
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Turkey (gun &
bow) |
10/11 to 12/3 |
11 |
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1/2hr before
sunrise
to 1/2hr after sunset |
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Pheasant |
10/30 to 1/10 |
3 |
12 |
8 am to 4:30
pm |
Youth Pheasant
(15 and under) |
10/23 to 10/24 |
12 |
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8 am to 4:30
pm |
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Bobwhite Quail |
10/30 to 1/31 |
8 |
16 |
8 am to 4:30pm |
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Ducks (S zone) |
10/16 to 12/9 |
check regs. |
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Same as geese |
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(N zone) |
10/16 to 12/12 |
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Geese, light |
9/25 to 1/9 |
combined
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20 |
Same as Ducks |
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White Fronted |
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2 |
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Blued Phase
Snow Geese |
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2 |
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