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Water Summary Update: Statewide drought conditions improve with January snowfall

• 2/9/2024 10:36:00 AM
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DES MOINES -- January’s above-normal snowfall has improved drought conditions across the state, according to the latest Water Summary Update.

Natural Resource Commission to meet Feb. 14

• 2/7/2024 9:36:00 AM
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Des Moines – The Natural Resource Commission (NRC) of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will meet at 9:30 a.m., Feb. 14, in the Wallace State Office Building, Conference Room 2 North, 502 East Ninth Street, in Des Moines. The meeting is open to the public.

Ice fishing shelters must be removed by Feb. 20

• 2/6/2024 12:04:00 PM
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DES MOINES – Ice fishing shelters, left unattended, must be removed from state-owned lands and waters, including parking lots and boat ramps by Feb. 20.

Registration open for Chronic Wasting Disease Ambassadors course in Woodbury County

• 2/6/2024 12:03:00 PM
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SIOUX CITY - Chronic Wasting Disease Ambassadors is a collaborative education program between the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach that seeks to help Iowans address the challenge of chronic wasting disease.

As other seasons close, hunters turn attention to coyotes

• 2/6/2024 12:01:00 PM
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Coyote hunting moves to center stage for an estimated 10,000 hunters, after most of Iowa’s other hunting seasons have now closed.

Walleye season closes Feb. 15 on Iowa Great Lakes

• 2/6/2024 11:59:00 AM
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SPIRIT LAKE – The walleye fishing season on Spirit, East and West Okoboji lakes is open through Feb. 14. It will close after that date and reopens on May 4. These are the only Iowa lakes that have a closed season for walleye.

Virtual fishing tournament encourages Iowa walleye anglers to report their catches

• 2/6/2024 11:56:00 AM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is partnering for a third year with MyCatch by Angler’s Atlas to conduct a statewide walleye fishing challenge starting March 30 through June 30.

Boil Order for Kimballton Residents

• 2/1/2024 12:19:00 PM
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AUDUBON COUNTY, Iowa - Authorities with the the City of Kimballton in Audubon County are issuing a boiled water advisory for the community after pressure was lost to the distribution system from a water main break.

Use SLEIS to SLICE the Time Spent Reporting Air Emissions

• 1/30/2024 4:01:00 PM
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Using the State & Local Emissions Inventory System (SLEIS) will simplify your 2023 air emissions inventory report and ensure it is complete and accurate.

DNR sets public meetings to recap hunting, trapping seasons, discuss possible rule changes

• 1/30/2024 11:42:00 AM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is hosting a series of town hall-style meetings where local staff will provide updates on recently completed hunting and trapping seasons, discuss possible changes to hunting and trapping rules and regulations, and address other topics as requested.

Iowa State Parks and Forests seek seasonal employees for summer 2024

• 1/30/2024 11:41:00 AM
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The DNR Parks, Forests and Preserves Bureau has openings for recreational aides and seasonal patrol officers across the state park system for the summer 2024 season.

Campground hosts needed for upcoming recreation season

• 1/30/2024 11:40:00 AM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking people who enjoy the outdoors, camping and meeting new people, to consider becoming volunteer campground hosts for the upcoming recreation season.

Chlorinated water discharge causes fish kill at McLoud Run

• 1/25/2024 3:57:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources was notified of a fish kill on January 25 at McLoud Run Trout Stream in Cedar Rapids.

Central Iowa winter community trout stockings changed to unannounced

• 1/25/2024 2:42:00 PM
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Winter community trout stockings at central Iowa ponds scheduled for this Saturday, Jan. 27 in Bondurant, Saturday, Feb. 3 in Ames and Waukee, and Saturday, Feb. 10 in Johnston will be unannounced due to warm weather and deteriorating ice conditions.

Postponed winter community trout locations will be ready for anglers soon

• 1/25/2024 2:40:00 PM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will stock trout at Blue Pit in Mason City, Moorland Pond in Fort Dodge, and Big Lake in Council Bluffs by the end of this week.

Air quality permits under review, published 1/25/2024

• 1/25/2024 1:23:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live.

DNR enforcement actions, published 1/25/2024

• 1/25/2024 1:18:00 PM
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DES MOINES – DNR staff work with individuals, businesses and communities to help them protect our natural resources by complying with state and federal laws.

Number of donors to the Chickadee Tax Check-off continues to decline

• 1/23/2024 12:40:00 PM
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Last year, more than 5,800 Iowa taxpayers helped boost wildlife conservation with donations to the Fish and Wildlife Fund on their state tax form.

Missouri and Big Sioux rivers paddlefish fishing season opens Feb. 1

• 1/23/2024 12:38:00 PM
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The paddlefish snagging season on the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers opens Feb. 1 and goes through April 30 (sunrise to sunset).

Minor Source Air Emission Inventories for Western Iowa due May 15

• 1/22/2024 2:55:00 PM
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Minor source facilities located in the western third of Iowa (counties listed below) must submit their Minor Source Emission Inventory (MSEI) for calendar year 2023 emissions by May 15, 2024.

Air quality permits under review, published 1/18/2024

• 1/22/2024 2:48:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live.

Grant funds available for communities impacted by the 2020 derecho

• 1/16/2024 3:24:00 PM
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The Iowa Legislature appropriated state infrastructure funds to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to be used for a community-based tree planting program for derecho recovery tree planting.

2023 hunting, fishing, trapping license sales

• 1/16/2024 3:23:00 PM
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In 2023, Iowa residents purchased…

DNR postponing trout stockings in Council Bluffs and Fort Dodge

• 1/16/2024 3:21:00 PM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is postponing the trout stockings scheduled for this Friday, Jan. 19 at Big Lake, Council Bluffs, and Moorland Pond, Fort Dodge, due to unsafe ice conditions and extreme cold weather.

Learn to Hunt program opens registration for Field To Fork deer hunting program

• 1/16/2024 3:16:00 PM
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DES MOINES - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a six-month workshop to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook white-tailed deer to individuals who have little to no archery hunting experience.

Snowmobilers welcome return of winter

• 1/16/2024 3:12:00 PM
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Snowmobilers across Iowa are welcoming the return of winter, eager to get out and enjoy the fresh snow.

Stay safe on the ice this winter

• 1/16/2024 3:10:00 PM
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With cold weather finally arriving in Iowa and freezing over lakes and ponds, ice fishing activity has begun at certain northern lakes.

Last chance to hunt deer until fall

• 1/11/2024 5:02:00 PM
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Iowa’s final deer seasons are now open - the Population Management January Antlerless Season and the Excess Tag January Antlerless Season.

Environmental Protection Commission meeting agenda

• 1/11/2024 4:24:00 PM
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DES MOINES -- The Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will have their monthly business meeting Jan.17. The meeting is open to the public.

Air quality permits, published 1/11/2024

• 1/11/2024 4:20:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live.

DNR enforcement actions, published 1/11/2024

• 1/11/2024 4:16:00 PM
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DES MOINES – DNR staff work with individuals, businesses and communities to help them protect our natural resources by complying with state and federal laws

Water Summary Update: Drought conditions persist despite increased December rainfall

• 1/11/2024 4:14:00 PM
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DES MOINES -- Despite above-normal rainfall in December, overall conditions at the end of 2023 remain dry, according to the latest Water Summary Update

Upcoming Client Contact and EPC Business Meetings

• 1/11/2024 4:11:00 PM
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Join the upcoming Client Contact and Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) meetings.

Proposed rule available for comment

• 1/10/2024 10:45:00 AM
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DES MOINES -- In accordance with Executive Order 10 (EO10), the Iowa DNR will hold a formal public comment period for the proposed Iowa Administrative Code Chapter 65 (567 IAC Chapter 65) - Animal Feeding Operations. The public comment period is open until Feb. 23.

County requirements for signup to evaluate animal confinement sites

• 1/10/2024 10:44:00 AM
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DES MOINES -- The Iowa DNR would like to remind counties interested in evaluating construction permits for proposed animal feeding facilities that they must adopt a construction evaluation resolution.

Come visit DNR at the 2024 Iowa Pork Congress

• 1/10/2024 10:42:00 AM
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DES MOINES -- Iowa DNR specialists will be in Booth 120 at the Iowa Pork Congress in Des Moines in late January.

DNR postponing trout stockings in Mason City and Sioux City

• 1/9/2024 3:33:00 PM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is postponing the trout stockings scheduled for this Saturday, Jan. 13 at Blue Pit, Mason City, and Bacon Creek Lake, Sioux City, due to unsafe ice conditions.

DNR sets public meetings to recap hunting, trapping seasons, discuss possible rule changes

• 1/9/2024 3:31:00 PM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is hosting a series of town hall-style meetings where local staff will provide updates on recently completed hunting and trapping seasons, discuss possible changes to hunting and trapping rules and regulations, and address other topics as requested.

Researchers looking for insight into wild turkey population decline

• 1/9/2024 3:29:00 PM
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The reintroduction of wild turkeys to Iowa’s landscape has been celebrated as a conservation success story for the past 25 years. But Iowa’s turkey population is showing troubling signs: the numbers are down, nests are failing and fewer poults are surviving. And it’s not just an Iowa problem – turkey populations are declining in all states in the Midwest and across the eastern half of the United States.

DNR enforcement actions, published 1/4/2023

• 1/4/2024 2:29:00 PM
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DES MOINES – DNR staff work with individuals, businesses and communities to help them protect our natural resources by complying with state and federal laws

Natural Resource Commission to meet Jan. 10

• 1/3/2024 11:17:00 AM
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Des Moines – The Natural Resource Commission (NRC) of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will meet at 10 a.m., Jan. 10, in the Wallace State Office Building, Conference Room 2 North, 502 East Ninth Street, in Des Moines. The meeting is open to the public.

Don’t miss your chance to get hands-on fisheries career experience

• 1/3/2024 11:14:00 AM
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Summer seasonal positions at Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries offices are open for applications until January 10.

Outdoor Notes

• 1/2/2024 12:01:00 PM
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Hunting seasons will begin closing soon in early January. Pheasant, archery turkey and deer seasons, and late muzzleloader deer season close on Jan. 10. Goose seasons start closing first in the north zone on Jan. 13, followed by the central zone on Jan. 20, and the south zone on Jan. 27.

Air quality permits under review, published 12/28/2023

• 12/28/2023 2:26:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the comment period.

Air quality permits under review, published 12/21/2023

• 12/21/2023 2:13:00 PM
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DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live. DNR’s permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment on draft permits. DNR considers public comments before finalizing the permits. Submit comments in writing to the assigned permit writer before 4:30 p.m. on the last day of the comment period.

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