Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

The Iowa Environmental Council and the Environmental Law & Policy Center have

Six-month investigation nets one felony weapons charge, 57 hunting-related charges, and multiple written warnings to a four-person hunting group.

Joe Sanfilippo, longtime supervisor of the Iowa DNR’s Manchester field office, will retire June 30 after 41 years with the agency.

The heat is on in Iowa with most of the state experiencing some degree of drought

Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon said she doesn’t have the authority to overturn her agency’s approval of an 11,600-head cattle feedlot near Monona.

Environmental groups say Supreme Beef facility may endanger trout stream

Because the feedlot is on porous terrain in the watershed of an important trout stream, the petition states, there is high risk of manure running into the water and potentially killing fish and destroying their habitat.

Iowa House approves budgets without agreement with Iowa Senate

With about 270 on-farm digesters in the U.S. — four of those in Iowa — advocates see a great opportunity for expansion at large-scale CAFOs. Environmentalists say the energy benefits are small compared with cost.

Ranger Carl Fairley spent 18 years at Pleasant Creek before coming to Palisades-Kepler, or, as supporters call it, ‘The Pal’

DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa environmental officials are investigating two manure spills into state creeks that led to fish kills …

Caves at popular state park closed for more than a year because of COVID-19 and winter bat hibernation