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Iowa Capital Dispatch A fight over a northeast Iowa trout stream threatened by a cattle operation may be heading to court. (Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources) Critics of a northeast Iowa cattle operation near a high-quality trout stream are considering a court appeal after the state’s top environmental official declined to review her agency’s approval of the feedlot. Supreme Beef wants to raise more than 10,000 cattle in a partially enclosed feedlot near Bloody Run Creek, not far from Monona in Clayton County. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources years ago declared Bloody Run an “outstanding Iowa water” requiring special protection, and the agency stocks trout in the popular fishing spot. ....
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. ....