Wild Side column: A Christmas pheasant and an agate are among discoveries during the winter months
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Wild Side column: A Christmas pheasant and an agate are among discoveries during the winter months
Findings could impact federal recommendations for monarch conservation and aid efforts in making agricultural landscapes more biodiverse.
Palisades-Kepler is one of 17 Iowa state parks and recreation areas offering guided tours Sunday as part of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources First Day Hike promotion.
Megan Lenss, who received a Bachelor of Science in geoscience from the University of Iowa in 2021, now lives in Tromsø, Norway, and works in collaboration with the Norwegian Polar Institute and the University of Tromsø.
While the presence of the black carp in part of the Mississippi River basin has been previously reported, the research concludes that the population is now self-sustaining.
One of the most widely used snow-fighting agents — rock salt — comes at a price, both financially and environmentally.
“It’s surreal,” said Ed Jones, who owns 90 acres of pasture land that abuts the Ocheyedan River. “There’s no water. There’s no mud. There’s no nothing. It’s just gravel.”
Two weeks after an explosion and fire in a Marengo workshop injured up to 15 people and prompted an evacuation of nearby homes, local officials wonder who is going to pay for the long-term cleanup.
Summit intends to build about 680 miles of pipe in the northwestern half of the state to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to North Dakota for underground sequestration. The company is surveying land to help determine the proposed pipeline’s path and depth.
Iowa regulators have slapped an emergency order on a Marengo company after a Dec. 8 explosion, calling the C6-Zero facility a “clear threat to public health and the environment” because of “unknown flammable chemicals and gases” remaining in a damaged building.
A shingle recycler whose Marengo plant exploded last week, injuring up to 15 people -- including himself -- ran into problems with regulators and residents when he tried out his idea in other states.
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