“It could have easily been turned into another housing development off of Sugar Bottom Road,“ Brad Freidhof, county conservation program manager, said in an email. ”There is so much growth occurring, it is important to save this type of habitat and the cultural history associated with it.“
A $17,000 grant will fund 30 cultural community gardens in Linn County.
Researchers want to know how co-locating solar and crops could benefit farmers and be a salve to a growing strain in the Corn Belt, where rural residents and towns are pushing back on solar projects that can often take farmland out of production.
High school teams and competitions are growing across the state and country
Wildside column: A new “deadly dangle“ technique was discovered during a recent outing when the traditional one wasn’t working.
Cedar Rapids wastewater pollution control facility fishes out one to two dumpster loads of these commonly flushed items every week.
A lack of snowfall this past winter was likely a boon for Iowa pheasants, which were seen in roughly equal numbers as last year by state officers for their recent annual population survey.
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.
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