Via Flickr. Eleanor Hildebrandt | June 3, 2021 Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon decided last Friday that she will not use the Director’s Discretion Rule to review an 11,600-head cattle feedlot. More than 40 groups, individuals, and elected officials sent a letter to Lyon asking her to use the rule to veto…
Over Memorial Day weekend, many Iowans were outdoors enjoying Iowa’s natural resources. This summer, state parks, county conservation facilities, rivers, and lakes will fill with Iowans and visitors, to swim, fish, boat, and paddle.
Unfortunately, there is a fly in the ointment of our ability to enjoy nature, a problem more Iowans are coming to understand: the continuing degradation of water quality. Iowa’s rivers, streams and lakes public waters by law are resources we all have the right to use and enjoy. The threats will appear in news reports of fish kills and beach closings due to contaminated water, stories illuminating the tensions in a state that finds it nearly impossible to say no to the activities creating our problems.
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