by Dar Danielson | Mar 15, 2024 | Agriculture, Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
The Iowa DNR continues to investigate a fertilizer spill at the New Cooperative near Red Oak that has moved down the East Nishnabotna River. DNR environmental specialist Brent Martens says the approximately 15-hundred tons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer is the biggest...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 7, 2024 | News, Outdoors
The Iowa DNR is keeping an eye on the weather as it prepares for its annual spring trout stocking. Trout are a cool water fish naturally found in northeast Iowa streams and the DNR’s Mike Siepker says the unseasonably warm weather may bring up water temperatures...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 26, 2024 | News, Outdoors
The Iowa D-N-R says a dead animal found by a conservation officer on the I-80 median along the interchange with I-280 near Davenport is a gray wolf. State furbearer biologist, Vince Evelsizer, says they saw pictures of it and had it sent to the state veterinarian who...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 22, 2024 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Outdoors
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is asking the public for help in finding out how one of the state’s oldest trees got damaged. The DNR says someone reported a burning tree Sunday at Geode State Park near Danville in southeast Iowa. The tree turned out to...
by O. Kay Henderson | Feb 9, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
The idea of naming the tiny Iowa Darter as the official state fish has sailed through a House subcommittee. Representative Elinor Levin of Iowa City said it’s a great way to raise awareness about the only fish that has “Iowa” in its name....