Tag: Department of Natural Resources
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Flooded Iowa communities surviving with trucked-in water
The surging waters have damaged hundreds of homes in the Midwest and been blamed for at least three deaths — two in Nebraska and one in Iowa. DES MOINES, Iowa — As some communities along the Missouri River start to shift their focus to flood recovery after a late-winter storm, residents in two Iowa cities…
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Utah copes with drying streams, dying animals as drought tightens its grip
(Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune) Sam Plumb inspects the dry creek bed on his family’s property in Emigration Canyon. …with no relief in sight After one of the hottest and driest summers on record, Utah’s water supplies are so low that agricultural water deliveries have been cut short, stream gauges need to be repositioned…
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We Are the Carriers of Water
© Angela Morales-Hare. Click link below for the article. A conversation with Maggie Sanders, the Executive Secretary for the Nisqually Department of Natural Resources, about the importance of storytelling, the transference of traditional ecological knowledge and how to reclaim your voice. Maggie Sanders has a commanding presence. That thought emerges and crystallizes within a few…
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Wisconsin DNR Sets Hearing on Foxconn Water Diversion
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a public hearing on Racine officials’ request to pull 7 million gallons daily from Lake Michigan for a Foxconn Technology Group plant. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The public will get a chance to sound off in March about Racine officials’ request to pull 7 million gallons of…
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Iowa environmentalists scored a victory for water quality as 2017 ended
photo: Lake MacBride Last year saw many setbacks for environmentalists as President Trump and Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), took charge of the federal government’s environmental policy. But in Iowa, 2017 ended with a win for those concerned about the state’s water quality. At its December meeting, the Environmental Protection…
