Iowa has a lot of public land open to hunting. We have 99 counties and just going through the "C"s' total 117,000 acres. We have four reservoir systems distributed around the state that have tens of thousands of acres each, and two major rivers on each side of the state, the Mississippi and Missouri, that have lots of state land adjoining it, which is open to hunting more then not. I've hunted on some of it and it's good habitat and usually not over hunted, particularly in the northern, southern and west parts of the state. Some tracts are remote and likely see no hunting for years. Even on public land close to Des Moines, I've hunted for the day and never saw another person, particularly in bow season.
