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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 already [...] 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 is [...] Read More 
An extensive tree inventory will help to assess the risk the emerald ash borer may pose to communities in the three counties. In May, 2010, 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 [...] 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 and rivers in the Upper Iowa River Watershed and the Turkey River Watershed. They work with the local Soil and Water Conservation Districts and Iowa DNR to complete the monitoring, which helps everyone in Northeast Iowa better understand [...] Read More 
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 [...] 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 the [...] 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 Valley [...] Read More |
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