Delay mowing of roadside ditches to protect ground nesting birds, pollinators 4/17/2018 12:31:00 PM View Count 36233 Iowa law prohibits mowing roadside ditches each year between March 15 and July 15, to protect ground-nesting birds and to prevent nest destruction.
Late Winter is Best Time to Manage Roadsides 3/8/2016 6:34:00 AM View Count 9259 Iowa has more than 1.6 million acres of road right-of-ways and when properly managed these roadsides provide important nesting, roosting, and escape habitat for pheasants, partridge, quail, ducks, rabbits and many different songbirds.