Two Davenport men who earned money last year by hauling and storing thousands of junk tires without permits have been ordered to pay a total of $90,000 for the violations and to remove the tires from the property they rent, according to court documents.
Invasive carp were introduced in the 1970s and have since spread to rivers across Iowa.
At least 25 destructive species — like water fleas and bloody red shrimp — are inching closer to the Mississippi River Basin.
There are no state or federal financial assistance programs for ash tree removal in Iowa
Dozens of Linn County residents questioned Wolf Carbon Solutions about a proposed CO2 pipeline through Eastern Iowa.
Butterflies have been hard to find this summer and Texas is the key to survival.
Fishers on the Tennessee side of the Mississippi River are told: don’t eat the fish because they may contain high levels of contaminants. But on the other side of the same river, in Arkansas, fishers find no such warnings. Those state-issued fish consumption advisories for the Mississippi River make it difficult to make informed health decisions, experts say.
Iowa’s fish consumption guidelines are now based on tissue sampling, but state officials want to move to a system based on size of fish, regardless of where they swim.
There are no state or federal financial assistance programs for ash tree removal in Iowa
The Nature Call: A recent trip down Prairie Creek was a magical way to spend an afternoon with “waterfalls” and “unicorns.”
In The Gazette’s first round of exploring what the new legislation means to Iowa, we’re focusing on six ways you’ll see changes in energy, climate and farming.
Jim Walters has been growing trees from acorn seedlings for many years and has planted about 40 in his College Hill neighborhood in Iowa City. Take his tree canopy tour Aug. 21.
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