Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

An 11,600-head cattle feedlot -- the focus of an ongoing lawsuit against the state and continued scrutiny from neighbors -- soon will have less state oversight because owners have satisfied a stormwater management permit that will expire Jan. 1.

This marks the first time the DNR has proposed to withdraw such a plan.

Trees with no visible insects or fungus are dying on ravines and ridge tops across the Midwest. Foresters can do little more than cut down the majestic trees and harvest them quickly to beat the rot.

At about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, James D. Minor, 35, drove off the roadway at Olin Access Wildlife Management Area and hit an obstruction.

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.

Lake of Three Fires beach will be posted with signs warning swimmers of the parasite and the risk of infection. But the Iowa Department of Natural Resources does not plan follow-up testing because of CDC guidance saying there is “no established relationship between detection or concentration of

Investigators have uncovered little to establish a motive, noting they have not turned up any connection between Anthony Sherwin and those they say he killed at Maquoketa Caves State Park.

State officials want to develop a drought plan that would include a trigger point to call for precautions, such as water rationing. Iowa has been ruled highly vulnerable to drought in part because crops are not irrigated.

A Missouri resident has been infected by a microscopic organism that causes a rare, life-threatening brain infection after swimming at Lake of Three Fires State Park in southwest Iowa.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources last month awarded Carroll the Brass Bluegill award from its Fish Iowa! program. The award has been presented every year since 1996 to an outstanding local program.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has fined a northwest Iowa dairy owner the maximum $10,000 penalty for releasing 376,000 gallons of manure into a creek from a new anaerobic digester that hadn't been properly sealed or certified.

The over-application increased the risk of contaminating nearby waterways with nitrate, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

The city of Cedar Rapids has published its annual water quality report for 2021, which provides a comprehensive look at the past year’s drinking water quality. The city’s finished water had no violations.

The marina recently was fined $5,000 for the infraction but was granted an “after-the-fact permit” to approve the excavation.

“This is a strong statement from the EPA that these are a dangerous class of chemicals,” said David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa.