Tag: Missouri
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Upper Mississippi is ‘endangered,’ group says | qctimes.com
Photo: The nonprofit environmental group American Rivers has named the Upper Mississippi River to its 2019 list of top 10 most endangered rivers because of increasing flooding due to climate change and because of illegal raising of levees south of Muscatine that are making flooding downstream that much worse. This is Modern Woodmen Park in…
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Prairie STRIPS program expands with new grant
Narrow strips of native prairie planted on cropland, like the one shown above, can yield immense environmental benefits. The STRIPS program at Iowa State recently received a USDA grant to expand its work. Photo courtesy of Lisa Schulte Moore. AMES, Iowa – A recently awarded federal grant will help an innovative Iowa State University program…
