The public is invited to provide feedback on potential mitigation alternatives for the Upper and Lower Dams on the Upper Iowa River. The alternatives were presented at a public meeting held on Tuesday, June 18 at Luther College in Decorah. The materials and maps presented...
Project Overview Through collaborative meetings with members of the Motor Mill Foundation and Clayton County Conservation Board, Northeast Iowa RC&D staff developed an Interpretive Master Plan for Motor Mill Historic Site. This plan has served as a guide for the development of marketing materials and interpretive media...
Project Overview Project Rooted is a Farm-to-School nutrition education program utilized in school districts in Dubuque, Iowa. Rooted Boxes are distributed monthly to 900 elementary students and provide the food, tools, and knowledge necessary for making their own snacks out of local foods in the classroom and...
Project Overview On August 20, 1981, Rod Marlatt, Marlin Derby, and Jayna (Niswander) Dozier embarked on a day’s adventure of catfishing and artifact hunting on the Skunk River in Washington County, Iowa. Days like that were not unusual for this trio. In fact, they were probably...
Overview There are more than 200 miles of paved, granular, soft, and single-track trails spread across seven counties in Northeast Iowa. This extensive public trail network make Northeast Iowa a premier biking destination in Iowa and the Midwest and is a significant economic engine for local...
Northeast Iowa RC&D has been awarded the University of Iowa’s 2023 Iowa and Minnesota Campus Compact Presidents’ Community Partner Award. Iowa and Minnesota Campus Compact is a coalition of fifty-six college and university presidents committed to the civic mission of higher education. This includes educating students...
Public Invited to Provide Input on Upper and Lower Dam Mitigation The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is exploring options for mitigation of the Upper and Lower Dams on the Upper Iowa River. A preliminary public informational session will be held on Thursday, April 20 from...
The Turkey River Watershed Management Authority (WMA) has several upcoming opportunities for community members to share their questions, stories, and goals related to the Turkey River Watershed. The Turkey River Watershed includes more than one million acres across eight counties in Northeast Iowa. The WMA will...
Fayette County Conservation and the Fayette County Solid Waste Commission were awarded the 2022 Outstanding Interpretative Non-Print Media Award from the Iowa Conservation Education Coalition - ICEC and Iowa Association of Naturalists for the "Mike the Milk Jug and Friends" educational recycling animated videos produced...
Overview Around 465 million years ago, a football-stadium-sized meteor crashed into the shallow seas covering Iowa, leaving a three-mile-wide basin where Decorah now is. The discovery of the fossilized remains of a 6-foot sea scorpion, Pentecopterus decorahensis, within the now-buried Crater basin made international headlines and...