Butterflies have been hard to find this summer and Texas is the key to survival.
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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.
The Atherton Wetland, named to honor longtime Kirkwood Community College instructor Steve Atherton, who died in 2008, has 210 acres of prairie converted from farmland growing corn and soybeans.
Wildside column: A lack of shade didn’t bother the fish on this day — and that was OK.
The fish died of koi herpes virus, in the first case detected in Iowa.
Three are statewide projects, some of which may go toward the Middle Cedar Watershed.
Top donors include the Hall-Perrine Foundation, Alliant Energy, Collins Aerospace and ITC Midwest
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