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...
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...
Project Overview The Decorah Farmers Market is a popular destination in Decorah and Winneshiek County on Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings from May through October. Many market shoppers are also visiting Decorah as tourists, so they look to the Market vendors or managers for advice and...
Project Overview Nestled along the banks of the Turkey River, the six-story Motor Mill is believed to be the tallest structure of its kind in the Midwest and was constructed out of stone quarried from the surrounding hillsides in 1869. The larger 155-acre Motor Mill site...
Project Overview The Decorah Parks and Recreation Department manages a 20-mile network of soft trails popular with mountain bikers, hikers, and horseback riders. Unfortunately, as this trail system expanded in miles and increased in use over the years, corresponding trail signage, informational kiosks, promotional material, and...
Project Overview Meet Mike, Chester, Tammy, Nellie, and Rodney in this kid-friendly cartoon series designed to promote recycling and get your toes tapping at the same time! In a series of fun and short animated videos, Mike the Milk Jug, Chester the Cardboard Kid, Tammy the Tin...
Project Overview Northeast Iowa offers a unique landscape unlike any other in the state of Iowa. Steep limestone bluffs and rolling hills offer unique interactions between humans and the watershed they live in. The Stormwater Demonstration Site installed at 101 E. Greene Street incorporates a wide range...