Exceptional season allows DNR crews to achieve walleye egg collection goals 4/23/2024 12:13:00 PM View Count 2242 Walleyes spawn once a year using water temperature and photoperiod(length of day) as cues to spawn. DNR crews captured 3,318 adult female walleyes at East Okoboji, Rathbun, Spirit, Clear, and Storm lakes, as well as the Mississippi River.
Walleye netting season starts for Iowa DNR fish hatcheries 4/9/2024 12:39:00 PM View Count 2312 MORAVIA – The late night, annual walleye collection has begun at Clear Lake, Rathbun Reservoir, Storm Lake and the Iowa Great Lakes.
DNR crews achieve walleye collection goals 4/25/2023 11:46:00 AM View Count 4541 A dramatic warming trend, along with the correct photoperiod, allowed DNR staff to capture more than 3,100 adult female walleyes in a short amount of time at Clear, Rathbun, and Storm lakes.
Walleye netting season starts for Iowa DNR fish hatcheries 4/11/2023 2:23:00 PM View Count 3430 MORAVIA – The late night, annual walleye collection has begun at Clear Lake, Rathbun Reservoir, and Storm Lake with collection efforts soon to follow at the Iowa Great Lakes.
DNR crews achieve walleye collection goals despite cold, late spring 4/26/2022 1:40:00 PM View Count 2563 This year’s unusual cold, late spring delayed the start of walleye collection efforts.
Fish hatcheries busy netting walleye 4/12/2022 2:48:00 PM View Count 4376 MORAVIA – The late night, annual walleye collection has begun at Clear Lake, Rathbun Reservoir, Storm Lake and the Iowa Great Lakes. Crews with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Bureau will set gillnets at night looking for walleyes that are ready to spawn.
Fish hatcheries busy netting walleye 4/9/2019 12:05:00 PM View Count 3499 Moravia – The late night, annual walleye collection started April 6 at Rathbun Lake and April 7 at Storm Lake. Crews with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Bureau have been setting gillnets at night looking for walleyes ready to spawn.
Don't trash these 8 things 8/15/2018 2:27:00 PM View Count 16283 Each year, almost 3 million tons of trash end up in Iowa landfills, and of that, nearly 70 percent of the state’s landfilled municipal solid waste could have been diverted from the landfill through reuse, recycling and compost – or by not creating the waste at all. Help keep items out of landfills by following these easy tips!
DNR to discuss chronic wasting disease Jan. 18 in Harpers Ferry & Elkader, ahead of deer tissue collection effort 1/11/2018 10:39:00 AM View Count 4847 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will hold a special scientific collection effort Jan. 20-28, in targeted areas of Allamakee and Clayton counties near where chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been confirmed in wild Iowa deer.
Spring Cleaning? Here's Where to Take Your Stuff 5/18/2016 3:27:00 PM View Count 12258 Shake off those winter doldrums and rejuvenate the home with a good spring cleaning. But don’t dull the shine of your good deed by improperly disposing of cleaners or unwanted items that could be reused around the house or community.
Collection of Air Permits (CAP) Option Now Available 3/17/2016 9:34:00 AM View Count 4386 Today the DNR is making available a new air quality construction permit option called a Collection of Air Permits (CAP).
Partnership Provides Hands-On Experience for College Students, Helps DNR Data Collection 3/1/2016 9:26:00 AM View Count 4361 Forty students made their way into the main building on Hawkeye Community College’s farm lab in Waterloo on Wednesday morning where they joined staff from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources unloading a trailer of bobcats and otters for the day’s hands-on biology lesson.
Revised Collection of Air Permits (CAP) Option Available for Comment 2/16/2016 10:30:00 AM View Count 4096 The DNR is proposing to create a new air quality construction permit option called a Collection of Air Permits (CAP). Current construction permit practice is to issue one permit per emission point. The new CAP permit option will still give a permit number to each emission point but will consolidate requirements in one easy-to-use document.
New Construction Permit Option and Informational Meeting 12/11/2015 6:46:00 AM View Count 4322 The DNR is proposing to create a new air quality construction permit option called a Collection of Air Permits (CAP). The CAP permit will allow multiple emission points and permits to be combined into one document. The CAP permit option was developed based on recommendations from our recent dual LEAN events that included both permit applicants and DNR staff.
DNR To Continue Surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease 11/17/2015 10:13:00 AM View Count 5492 The Iowa DNR’s wildlife staff will be collecting tissue samples during Iowa’s shotgun deer seasons to test for the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Iowa’s wild deer herd.
14 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle 5/1/2015 8:28:00 AM View Count 21156 Paper, sure. Plastic, cardboard, of course. But before you toss those old shingles or paint, or dump a box of Styrofoam packing peanuts in the trash, you’ll want to look up where you can recycle them.