Summer is a popular time for fishing trips across Iowa, but how can anglers be sure they’ll catch fish? And how does the state maintain a fish population that allows for fishing? Those questions can be answered by Iowa’s fish hatcheries, which fertilize, rear and stock fish species across the state each year.
The EPA said Monday it’s still evaluating the citizen petition nearly a year after it was submitted.
Iowa City’s Jim Larew's focus on environmental law marks a return to his youth, when modern environmentalism was born. He foresees a renaissance.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse library has amassed an informal holding place for photos, maps, journals and field notes telling the story of the upper Mississippi River and the Driftless region that surrounds it, including northeast Iowa.
More people visiting vistas — and businesses — in northeast corner of state
A Rochester man’s proposal to turn a portion of southeast Minnesota’s Driftless region into a national park died less than a month after he proposed it this year. But discussion about protection and promotion of the region — which stretches into northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin and northwest Illinois — continues.
‘There are 125 different species of fish in the Mississippi River,’ said Ross Geerdes, executive director of the center, in Lansing. ‘We can’t have all of them, but we’d like to have a dozen or maybe more. People want to look at the underside of the Mississippi River.’
Northeast Iowa offers many options, from no-frills to furnished cabins
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