by Matt Kelley | May 3, 2021 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Outdoors
The rare and powerful derecho that rampaged across Iowa last August caused extensive damage to hundreds of thousands of trees, but not all of the wind storm’s damage was negative. Billy Beck, a forestry specialist at the Iowa State University Extension, says the...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 13, 2021 | News
Iowa farmers will soon head out to plant their fields, and many will be thinking about the derecho that swept across the state last August. The powerful winds flattened corn, and farmers were unable to harvest hundreds of thousands of acres. Iowa State University...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Feb 25, 2021 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Politics & Government
U.S. House Democrats have proposed an amendment that would remove a provision by Iowa Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra that provides money in the pandemic relief bill for victims of natural disasters. Areas of Iowa damaged by the August derecho would see some of...
by Matt Kelley | Feb 24, 2021 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
A Marion-based non-profit is launching what promises to be a multi-million dollar effort to restore trees lost in last year’s derecho. Trees Forever founding president and CEO Shannon Ramsay says communities across Iowa and Illinois that were impacted by the...
by Kay Henderson | Feb 19, 2021 | Education, News, Politics & Government
A bill providing public schools extra money to cover Covid-related costs has won bipartisan approval in the Iowa House. Twenty-seven million dollars would be split among all districts, but Republican Representative Dustin Hite of New Sharon says districts that had the...
