This is on the agenda for the August 12 Natural Resources Commission meeting. The meeting starts at 9 am at the Henry Wallace Building – 4th Floor Conference Room

Des Moines, Iowa 50319

the agenda item is at: http://www.iowadnr.gov/nrc/10aug/16.pdf

Contact info for the commissioners who will be making the final decision

Gregory Drees, Commission Chairperson [email protected]

Tammi Kircher, Commission Vice-Chairperson [email protected]

Richard (Kim) Francisco, Secretary [email protected]

Elizabeth Garst [email protected]

Janelle Rettig [email protected]

Dennis Schemmel [email protected]

Margo Underwood [email protected]

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use to have monster gills and some nice crappies says the perch are plentiful but small in size.

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exactly why people need to quit midnight stocking perch in every lake and pond they can find.

1 other thing, is it just me and a possibly faulty memory or has the water quality (major green in the summer) gone way down hill over the last 10 years or so?

Barc, where did you find this:

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Iowa and Wisconsin have a reciprocity agreement……. An angler must always follow the most restrictive regulations between the two states when he is fishing outside of his/her licensed state.”

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Because the current 2010 regs booklet says: (For IA/WI)

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Where there are differences in the elements of the boundary water regulations, you must comply with the regulations of the state whose territorial waters you are fishing in.

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all the other border state agreements say

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You must conform with the regulations of the state in which you are fishing unless the regulations of your state are more restrictive, then you must conform with the more restrictive regulations.

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but IA/WI does not.

HJR1 passed the House Natural Resources committee unanimously (21-0) yesterday!!!!

Thanks you to all who have helped so far!!

Mark your Calendar:

There will be a Rally at the Capital to support Sustainable Funding on Tuesday February 17th . We willl meet at the Wallace Building auditorium at 10a.m. From there we will head to the capitol and speak to legislators urging them to support the sustainable funding legislation.

The resolution passed the Senate committee with a unanimous vote.
The House committee assigned the bill to its subcommittee on Thursday will likely consider the bill on Tuesday (Jan 27).
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Paul Bell stated that he wanted this to be the first legislation out of the committee.

The House Natural Resources Committee members are:

Paul Bell (D, District 41), Chair
John W. Beard (D, District 16), Vice Chair
Dave Deyoe (R, District 10), Ranking Member
Richard Arnold (R, District 72)
Clel Baudler (R, District 58)
Gene Ficken (D, District 23)
Daniel Huseman (R, District 53)
Jim Lykam (D, District 85)
Larry K. Marek (D, District 89)
Mike May (R, District 6)
Dolores Mertz (D, District 8)
Eric Palmer (D, District 75)
Henry V. Rayhons (R, District 11)
Jason Schultz (R, District 55)
Sharon Steckman (D, District 13)
Annette Sweeney (R, District 44)
Phyllis Thede (D, District 81)
Linda Upmeyer (R, District 12)
John Whitaker (D, District 90)
Wesley Whitead (D, District 1)
Ray Zirkelbach (D, District 31)

http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=SJR1

This is a constitutional ammendment to protect 3/8 of a cent of the next sales tax increase for natural resources and outdoor recreation. which would amount to about 150 million.

This passed last year and must pass this new legislature and then be voted on in the 2010 general election.

Minnesota just passed similar legislation this past election and Missouri has had this type of funding since the 70’s

Nick, the 9″ gills were out on that sketchy Ice, I was out there from about 8:30 till 1 or 1:30 when there was enough water on the ice almost everyone that was in the group of tents south of the north ramp moved into the NE corner.

Ice was about 3″ of good ice 1″ of milky ice, caught a decent mess of nice gills and quite a few perch. Saw tons of perch on the cam, mostly smaller ones but I kept about 7 10-11 inchers.

When we moved into the NE corner we actually ended up on less safe ice than we had out on the lake, I’d go back again but I don’t like the ice anywhere there for tomorrow.

The meeting minutes just went up.

SJR 2002: A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Iowa to dedicate a portion of state revenue from the tax imposed on
certain retail sales of tangible personal property and services for the
benefit of the state’s natural resources. Opening remarks were made and there
were no amendments. There were questions from Representatives Upmeyer,
Baudler, Bailey, Lukan, Whitaker, Rasmussen and Rayhons. Representative Bell
moved for passage of SJR 2002. A record roll call was taken and SJR 2002
passed with 20 Ayes, 1 Absent, and 0 Nays. Representative Mertz was excused
from the meeting, and would have also voted Aye for the Resolution.
Representative Taylor, D. recognized the passage of SJR 2002 and referred the
bill to the floor of the House as a Senate Joint Resolution.

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There is also 1 more I would add to the contact list simply because I know he is currently against the Constitutional amendment.

David Jacoby House District 30 Coralville
[email protected]

His position is that we shouldn’t amend the constitution but that we should fund these needs through the Iowa code.

I’m not sure he fully understands the history of Natural resources and outdoor recreation being constantly underfunded by the legislature and being the first thing cut when dollars get tight.

I also don’t know if he knows that constitutionally protecting this funding stream was the recommendation of the legislators on the sustainable funding task force. (from both sides of the aisle)

What I do know is that I and several of you will now try to explain it to him.

Here is the list of Reps. that need additional contacts. This list is very important !

Christopher Rants–Sioux City
[email protected]

Kraig Paulsen——–Hiawatha
[email protected]

Jeff Kaufmann———Tipton, West Liberty Area
[email protected]

Rod Roberts———–Carroll
[email protected]

Doug Struyk————Council Bluffs
[email protected]

Linda Upmeyer———Garner
[email protected]

Get the word out and turn up the volume!

After Passing the Senate 47-2 last week,The Sustainable Funding Bill

SJR 2002 has been assigned to a subcommittee within the House Natural Resources Committee. Both the subcommittee and the full House Natural Resources Committee MUST pass SJR 2002 THIS WEEK or it’s dead for the year. So contacting those on the House Natural Resources Committee and particularly the sub committee is very important.

The subcommittee includes:

Paul Bell (D, District 41), Chair

[email protected]

McKinley Bailey (D, District 9)

[email protected]

Dan Rasmussen (R, District 23)

Capitol Telephone: 515-281-3221

Henry Rayhons (R, District 11)

Capitol Telephone: 515-281-3221

John Whitaker (D, District 90)

[email protected]

The rest of the members of the House Natural resources committee are:

Dick Taylor (D, District 33), Vice Chair [email protected]

Rich Arnold (R, District 72) [email protected]

Clel Baudler (R, District 58 ) [email protected]

Mark Davitt (D, District 74) [email protected]

Dan Huseman (R, District 53) [email protected]

Steven Lukan (R, District 32) [email protected]

Jim Lykam (D, District 85) [email protected]

Dolores Mertz (D, District 8 ) [email protected]

Paul Shomshor (D, District 100) [email protected]

Chuck Soderberg (R, District 3) [email protected]

Todd Taylor (D, District 34) [email protected]

Linda Upmeyer (R, District 12) [email protected]

Jim Van Engelenhoven (R, District 71) [email protected]

Andrew Wenthe (D, District 18 ) [email protected]

Wes Whitead (D, District 1) [email protected]

You will notice I removed

Nathan Reichert (D, District 80) from the contact list, he has stated that he is 100% in support!

SJR 2002 passed the Senate this afternoon by a vote of 47 to 2!!!

Please thank your Senators for supporting the future of Natural resources and outdoor recreation in Iowa!

Now on to the House.

On the question “Shall the resolution be adopted?” (S.J.R. 2002), the vote was:
Yeas, 47:
Angelo, Fraise, Kettering, Ragan,
Appel, Gaskill, Kibbie, Schmitz,
Beall, Gronstal, Kreiman, Schoenjahn,
Behn, Hahn, Lundby, Seng,
Black, Hancock, McCoy, Seymour,
Boettger, Hartsuch, McKibben, Stewart,
Bolkcom, Hatch, McKinley, Warnstadt,
Connolly, Heckroth, Mulder, Wieck,
Danielson, Hogg, Noble, Wood,
Dearden, Horn, Olive, Zaun,
Dotzler, Houser, Putney, Zieman,
Dvorsky, Johnson, Quirmbach

Nays, 2:
Courtney, Rielly

P.S. Rugbystar, it is on the IO site in the general hunting forum for lack of a better place. And I am a regular over there.

SJR 2002 is scheduled for debate in the senate early next week.

The following Senators need additional e-mails, calls, and face to face this weekend because they are undeceided on this issue.

Jeff Angelo———Creston
Jerry Behn———–Boone
Nancy Boettger—-Harlan
David Hartsuch—–Bettendorf
Herman Quirmbach—Ames
Jim Seymour——–Woodbine
Brad Zaun——–Urbandale
Gene Fraise—–Ft. Madison
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Jeremy Rosonke
Waterfowl Association of Iowa, Inc.
NE regional director
641-330-7486

Thanks for the welcome!

I do a little bit of everything Hunting/fishing/trapping wise. most of my summer fishing is for catfish after dark but I love Ice fishing.

The Sustainable funding amendment is now known as:

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION (SJR) 2002

This is the result of the vote in the Senate Natural Resources and Environment committee:

Ayes, 14: Black, Hancock, Behn, Bolkcom, Dearden, Hogg, Johnson, Kettering, Lundby, Noble, Ragan, Schoenjahn, Seng, and Wood. Nays, none. Absent, 1: Gaskill.

Next step: SJR 2002 goes to the Senate floor.

It is extremely important that the Senate pass SJR 2002 with an overwhelming majority in order to send a message to the House Natural Resource Committee and the full House that this piece of legislation is very important to Iowans.

Emails are fast and easy to use, please take the time to send them. The next step up is a personal touch, a phone call, or better yet many legislators have meetings in their districts when they are home for the weekend, attend those meetings and voice your support for SJR 2002. Please be polite and respectful.

This amendment creates a Natural Resources and

Outdoor Recreation Trust fund within the treasury

for the purposes of protecting and enhancing water quality and natural areas in this State including parks, trails, and fish

and wildlife habitat, and conserving agricultural soils in

this State. Money in the fund shall be exclusively appropriated by law for these purposes.

This constitutional amendment is our promise to future Iowans that Iowa’s natural resources will be here for them with healthier water quality, wildlife habitat, and a top-notch system of parks and trails.

This bill goes to the full Senate SOON, please make your calls or emails this week.

(Thanks for making those contacts guys, every one counts!!! )