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

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.

Bloody Run Creek near Monona in Clayton County is designated among a small number of “Outstanding Iowa Waters” with exceptional …

Asking the Department of Natural Resources, under current management, to save even a waterway it’s dubbed “outstanding” is an exercise …

Environmental groups are asking Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon to use her discretion to overrule a project to put 11,600 cattle near a northeast Iowa trout stream.

Our reporters kept track of which bills passed and which didn’t. Here’s the outcome.

Environmental groups see this conversation — documented in an Oct. 2 email — as evidence Supreme Beef’s plan to have 11,600 cattle on the site near Monona was approved behind closed doors, rendering moot a public hearing and public comments.

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.

DNR’s acceptance of manure management plan for a large cattle feedlot near a trout stream is the latest reminder livestock interests run the state.