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Iowa (IA)

Jurisdiction shell is ready; add agency, species, unit, deadline, and application data as research comes in.

Known for White-tailed deer

Iowa big-game backdrop

Iowa is one of the most famous trophy whitetail draw states.

Generated wildlife art is used as atmosphere only; official tag, season, and unit decisions stay tied to agency data below.

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Agency source

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medium confidence

Opportunities

0

researched nonresident paths

Applications

0

public research mode

Unit map

GIS

Socrata GeoJSON / Iowa Data portal

Unit Map / Units

GIS polygon layers render here when imported. Colorado now uses official CPW GMU boundaries; other states fall back to seeded unit cards until their KML/GeoJSON/shapefile layers are converted.

1 GIS layer

Iowa Wildlife Management Units

Official GIS source
primary units
16 polygons

Primary statewide management or hunt-unit boundaries.

Salorville (Salorville)Maquoketa (Maquoketa)Red Rock (Red Rock)Prairie Lakes (Prairie Lakes)Blackhawk (Blackhawk)Rathbun (Rathbun)Clear Lake (Clear Lake)Cedar-Wapsi (Cedar-Wapsi)Grand River (Grand River)Iowa River (Iowa River)Great Lakes (Great Lakes)Missouri River (Missouri River)Upper Iowa (Upper Iowa)Sugema (Sugema)Odessa (Odessa)Nishnabotna (Nishnabotna)SalorvilleMaquoketaRed RockPrairie LakesBlackhawkRathbunClear LakeCedar-WapsiGrand RiverIowa RiverGreat LakesMissouri RiverUpper IowaSugemaOdessaNishnabotna
No units seeded yet for IA. The page is ready for a GIS/SVG boundary layer and unit records when imported.

Agency portals

Official agency, license/application, regulations, draw odds, and harvest stats.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources
US Midwest/South
medium
AgencyApplication portalRegulationsDraw odds / statsHarvest stats

Go Outdoors Iowa is the official portal for licenses, harvest reporting, real-time quotas/harvests, and nonresident deer/turkey tags. Stable public draw-odds/statistics page not found in this pass; nonresident guide references drawing statistics. Official nonresident hunting licenses page links current nonresident deer draw statistics PDF; use as draw-statistics landing page.

Official agency links are public. Private account tracking is available separately when saved application data exists.

Deadlines

Application, draw, reporting, and point purchase reminders.

No deadlines seeded yet.

Unit boundary source

Official map/GIS source for the future clickable unit-level map.

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Iowa Wildlife Units
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
wildlife unit
DNR wildlife management unit
district

Format: Socrata GeoJSON / Iowa Data portal

Conversion: Use official Socrata GeoJSON export `https://data.iowa.gov/api/geospatial/ptnk-w4ae?method=export&format=GeoJSON`; fields include boundarytype, unitname, districtname, objectid, idadminboundary. Do not import Iowa CWD Deer Management Zones into unit maps; CWD is disease data, not hunt-unit data.

License/source notes: Official State of Iowa data portal dataset described as management units used by the Iowa DNR Wildlife Bureau. The previously imported CWD Deer Management Zones are only a disease/special overlay and should not be treated as Iowa's primary game/wildlife units.

Open boundary source

Species available

Starter list for this jurisdiction.

No species data yet.

Applications

State/province-specific plans, submitted applications, draw status, and spend.

No applications yet.