Whether traveled on foot or via mountain bike, the trails of Lake Macbride offer year-round beauty
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Whether traveled on foot or via mountain bike, the trails of Lake Macbride offer year-round beauty
Professor Lisa Schulte Moore, a landscape ecologist who has conducted groundbreaking research to help address sustainable farming, water quality and climate change, Tuesday became the university’s first MacArthur Fellow.
Dry conditions gave way to late flood and blood-thirsty mosquitos
The Nature Call: Sometimes life gets in the way of getting a nature fix
The Iowa DNR hosted a small sawmill business workshop Thursday at the Schwab/Burford property near Solon. About 20 people learned about selecting and sourcing logs, sawing with band and chain sawmills, air drying, kiln drying, sterilizing wood to kill bugs and marketing finished boards, among other topics.
The Sierra Club Iowa Chapter filed a lawsuit Thursday in Clayton County District Court against the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Supreme Beef, owners of an 11,600-head cattle feedlot near Monona.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The head of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking a federal agency overseeing the environmental review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to cut ties with a contractor conducting the analysis, citing a conflict of interest.
Quietly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UI surpassed its goal of having 40 percent renewable energy by 2020. The university now has at least 42 percent of its power from renewable sources and one boiler exclusively fed biomass fuels.
The state Department of Natural Resources said Iris Merfeld, 36, of Zwingle, died early Saturday after falling from an overlook known as Pulpit Rock.
In 2004, a group of Midwestern soil scientists, including John Sawyer at Iowa State University, developed the Maximum Return to Nitrogen, a practice that calls for weighing the prices of corn and fertilizer to find the sweet spot of productivity and profit without waste. The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation criticized the approach in a July podcast.
The Sioux Falls, S.D.-based biofuels producer recognizes need for “bolder solutions” to protect planet.
Wildside column: Numbers projected to be similar to 2020 harvest
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