Family-Outdoors

If you hunt or fish in Iowa, you have enjoyed the fruits of a program that has been providing money for conservation for 75 years. The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program has funded acquisition, construction, restoration, research, surveys, stocking, and many other activities in Iowa from the federal excise tax paid on hunting and fishing equipment, bait and ammunition. “This federal program has been the lifeblood for the states supporting nearly everything we do for the benefit of hunters, anglers and trappers,” said Chuck Corell, administrator for the wildlife, fisheries, parks, forests, land acquisition and law enforcement bureaus in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. “Our hunting and fishing opportunities would look much different today if not for the vision by the early leaders of conservation,” Corell said. “All of the fish we stock, the research projects, population surveys, expanding public land, installing boat ramps and on and on have all been helpe...