Tax exemptions provide an incentive to qualifying landowners to preserve their woodlands, but bills introduced in the Iowa Legislature last year and again this year seek to change the state’s Forest and Fruit Tree Reserve program.
Clean water advocates in northeast Iowa plan to challenge a water permit for a large cattle feedlot in state court, as part of their continuing efforts to protect a prized trout stream.
The alert comes after nine OHV/ATVs broke through ice on Iowa lakes last weekend.
According to a press release from the Iowa DNR, the semi driver was headed east on the interstate and pulled over after noticing the tires were smoking.
Ultimate goal is an Iowa that is “built for everyone” in the project being led by the UI and Pathfinders RC&D.
The annual events are hosted by staff and volunteers of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. There are several guided hikes Wednesday in Eastern Iowa.
The lawsuit would be an uncommon move by residents to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. Agri Star Meat & Poultry has routinely violated its wastewater permit.
A nonpoint source management plan allows a state to be eligible for grants through the federal Clean Water Act that address nonpoint source pollution. Iowa drafted its first plan in 1990 and continues to update it at regular intervals.
A report from the Lake Restoration Program with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources details the completion of several years-long restoration projects in 2024 and outlines major project plans in 2025.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Friday it has seen a “sharp jump” in cases of the highly pathogenic avian flu in wild birds this month after “nearly a year” with no detections of the virus.
The operators of ten Hoeve Dairy agreed to pay a $7,000 fine after an investigation by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources noted several violations at the site.
Across the Midwest, meatpacking plants -- including Agri Star in Postville -- often pollute non-white communities and low-income neighborhoods, according to an Investigate Midwest analysis of two decades of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement data.
Project near Pella is largest undertaken in Iowa
Facility near Shell Rock paid fine after three years of emitting cancer-causing toxins into the atmosphere.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is releasing 1,000 to 2,000 trout at 18 locations across the state this fall.
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