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English Conservation Tillage: Types, methods, pros & cons. (3:03 min) Filter Strips: Stream-side perennial vegetation provides BIG environmental benefits. (5:00 min) Water Erosion: Outlines causes, types, and damages of errant water. (4:08 min) Water Quality: Common issues are described in getting and keeping clean water. (4:00 min) Wind Break: Very [...] Read More  En EspañolM&M Divide RC&D produced this short video series offering information on land management: Watersheds Conservation Tillage Filter Strips Water Erosion Water Quality Wind Break Wind Erosion Watershed: Explanation of a watershed and its benefits. (2:40 min) Conservation Tillage: Types, methods, pros & cons. (3:03 min) Filter Strips: Stream-side perennial vegetation provides [...] Read More  Iowa’s eleven byways are home to some of the most scenic roadways in the region. Travel these routes and you’ll discover unique land features, welcoming people, and a host of fascinating cultural and historical sites not found on the beaten path.  Northeast Iowa RC&D, in partnership with the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, has been hosting free website building workshops for local food producers and farmers across Iowa. These workshops have successfully helped dozens of local food producers develop websites for their businesses, expand Iowa’s local food system and build relationships between local food producers and the consumers that love their food! [...] Read More
 What would you like to show visitors traveling the Driftless Area Scenic Byway? Art Galleries? Scenic Overlooks? Restaurants? Or Museums? Here’s your chance to put your favorite places along the byway on the map. The Developing Iowa’s Byways through GIS Technology project is underway and 24 miles of the Driftless Area Scenic Byway have [...] Read More  The gypsy moth is a non-native, serious pest of over 600 hardwood tree and shrub species. The gypsy moth damages the plants when the caterpillar stage eats the leaves. When there are many caterpillars and the damage occurs over several years, the continual defoliation can weaken and sometimes kill the trees. The gypsy moth [...] Read More  An extensive tree inventory will help to assess the risk the emerald ash borer may pose to Winneshiek County. This past May, the emerald ash borer, the invasive insect from eastern Asia that kills ash trees, was found on an island on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River near New Albin by the [...] Read More 
Developed in partnership with the Northeast Iowa Tourism Association, this booklet is packed with nearly 50 pages of things to see and do in our six county region: outdoor recreation, dining, arts, history, attractions, and entertainment. Northeast Iowa Bluff Country Booklet (PDF: 2.0MB)  Staff at Northeast Iowa RC&D spend one morning each month monitoring the water quality of local streams. 
Funding Provided By Safe Routes to School Program Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development partnered with 34 schools from 13 school districts in Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, and Winneshiek counties during the 2008-2009 school year to gather baseline data on: current attitudes and behaviors of students and parents toward walking and biking to school [...] Read More NE IA RC&D is partnering with Allamakee and Winneshiek County Soil and Water Conservation Districts to model innovative small feedlot solutions in Northeast Iowa. The RC&D helped the districts secure an Iowa 319/EPA grant for technical assistance, cost share and education at the local and state level. The project is addressing an impairment of [...] Read More  This Driftless Area Initiative developed at the request of 48 local, county, state and federal organizations. Northeast Iowa RC&D is working with five other RC&D’s to draw national attention to the Driftless Area, including Limestone Bluffs RC&D Iowa, River Country RC&D Wisconsin, Southwest Badger RC&D Wisconsin, Black Hawk Hills RC&D Illinois, and Hiawatha [...] Read More NE IA RC&D is working though this project to increase outreach to individual landowners and facilitate interaction between US Fish and Wildlife Service, NRCS, DNR, the US Forest Service and other agencies that have funding for private land conservation. The project maximizes the impact existing programs have on the landscape and develops new opportunities [...] Read More Through this project, NE IA RC&D partnered with NRCS to maintain and restore cropland, forestland, grazing land, and fish and wildlife habitat and protect water and air resources in Northeast Iowa by providing information and education to producers about participation in the Conservation Security Program. The project also provided outreach to producers and Soil [...] Read More |
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