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DELHI – Surveying the debris-strewn muck flats below the Lake Delhi dam shortly after its 2010 failure, I doubted I …

SIGOURNEY – Fishing farm ponds with Tom Monroe feels a little like cheating, but not so much that you can’t …

Organic farming is growing in Iowa almost as fast as the bane of chemical-free farmers — weeds. While pigweed and …

The pleasure afforded by the shade of the giant bur oak overhanging my garden is more than doubled these days …

A recent dinner in a pig barn underscored something I’ve long known but too often forget: There are good people …

Though Iowa’s agriculture-related pollution gets most of the attention — as it should, with an estimated 90 percent of the …

Plans are afoot to help increase local roadside ditches’ value as pollinator habitats. Such ditches ‘are a potential gold mine …

Scott Conway says he can’t wait to catch one of the native trout stocked earlier this year in the nameless …

The wetland at Koutny Pond/Hoffman Woods east of Brandon is dry and will remain so for up to a year, …

For many northern Linn County farmers, relief from a hot, dry early June turned out to be no relief at …

LANSING — The age-old angler’s quandary — whether it’s better to leave biting fish in search of others or exploit …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The nonprofit Nature Conservancy in Iowa, in cooperation with several partners, is restoring 40 wetlands in the …

Veteran angler and tournament competitor Brian Stoll will conduct fishing seminars — one for beginners, one for advanced anglers — …

No one is mentioning the ‘D” word yet, but continued dry weather could change that. As I write this on …

DECORAH – Though it provides little solace for northeast Iowans worried about the impact of livestock confinements in areas of …