Sparsity of public land in Iowa

Stream straightening and phosphorus loss.

A response to the previous Ransom essay.

Who IS getting the outcomes that they want from our policies, and in particular, the old school policies targeting improved water quality?

Everybody knows Iowa has a lot of livestock. Managing the waste from these animals is possibly our state’s most challenging environmental problem.

Would enhanced crop yields (and therefore removal of nitrogen in the crop) outweigh the loss of N through the tile and out to the stream?