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Iowa’s 2024 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 5/20/2024 8:50:00 PM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems.

Come Join the Frog and Toad Call Survey!

• 3/22/2024 6:02:00 PM
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Calling all wildlife watchers! The Iowa DNR will be hosting two more frog and toad call survey training workshops in 2024.

Opportunity to help track frog and toad populations in Iowa

• 3/19/2024 2:27:00 PM
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It’s 10 o’clock on a summer night along a gravel road anywhere in Iowa. In the farm pond next to the road, a raucous chorus of male frogs are making themselves heard as they vie for mates.

Iowa DNR hiring seasonal water quality monitoring staff for summer

• 3/10/2022 2:12:00 PM
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DES MOINES - The Iowa DNR’s Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Section is currently hiring seasonal natural resource aides for the summer.

Iowa’s 2021 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 5/18/2021 8:25:00 AM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems.

Iowa's 5-year Network Assessment is available for public review and comment

• 3/30/2020 8:08:00 AM
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The 5-year Air Monitoring Network Assessment will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa's air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems.

Iowa’s 2019 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 5/21/2019 1:07:00 PM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems. The plan is required by EPA’s national ambient air monitoring regulations.

Meet Iowa's smallest carnivore

• 8/15/2018 9:54:00 AM
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Though they be but little, they are fierce! The least weasel (Mustela nivalis) is the smallest species of true carnivore, coming from the order Carnivora.

Iowa’s 2018 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 5/21/2018 10:56:00 AM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems. The plan is required by EPA’s national ambient air monitoring regulations. It contains detailed information about the location and purpose of any monitor in Iowa’s air monitoring network that produces data for comparison with national ambient air quality standards.

Water monitoring, contracts at Environmental Protection meeting Tuesday

• 5/11/2018 9:11:00 AM
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DES MOINES—A presentation on water monitoring will head up the Environmental Protection Commission’s May 15 business meeting.

Iowa citizens playing key role in tracking imperiled wildlife

• 2/6/2018 1:12:00 PM
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It’s 10 o’clock on a summer night along a gravel road anywhere in Iowa. In the farm pond next to the road a raucous chorus of male frogs are making themselves heard as they vie for mates. A volunteer stands clipboard in hand, ear cocked, mentally sorting out each of the calling species which are using this seemingly ordinary pond. 

DNR looking for deer tissue samples from specific areas as it monitors for chronic wasting disease

• 12/5/2017 12:20:00 PM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) continues to collect deer tissue samples from willing hunters as part of its effort to monitor for and track the presence of chronic wasting disease.

Fantastic Fisheries Work on Small Streams

• 11/20/2017 8:16:00 AM
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Through the Multiple Species Inventory and Monitoring (MSIM) Project, Iowa State University and the Iowa DNR Wildlife Bureau have a partnership to sample small streams throughout the state for fish diversity.

DNR launches new, locally-led water quality monitoring program

• 7/20/2017 12:20:00 PM
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DES MOINES — The DNR is launching a new, locally-led volunteer water monitoring program to help Iowans better understand their local water quality. 

12 Iowa deer test positive for chronic wasting disease from 2016-17 hunting seasons

• 3/14/2017 11:44:00 AM
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has closed the book on its 2016 chronic wasting disease monitoring effort that collected 4,879 tissue samples from wild deer with 12 samples testing positive for the disease. Test results are pending on deer from a handful of counties and on 86 deer tissue samples from the Clayton County special deer collection effort that ended on March 5.

Iowa’s 2017 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 3/1/2017 4:21:00 PM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems. The plan is required by EPA’s national ambient air monitoring regulations. It contains detailed information about the location and purpose of any monitor in Iowa’s air monitoring network that produces data for comparison with national ambient air quality standards.

Iowa citizens playing key role in tracking imperiled wildlife

• 1/24/2017 12:19:00 PM
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It’s 10:00 on a summer night along a gravel road anywhere in Iowa.  In the farm pond next to the road a raucous chorus of male frogs are making themselves heard as they vie for mates.  A volunteer stands clipboard in hand, ear cocked, mentally sorting out each of the calling species using this seemingly ordinary pond. 

Iowa DNR releases new five-year strategy for ambient water monitoring

• 1/19/2017 4:00:00 PM
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DES MOINES – A new five-year strategy aiming to improve the Iowa DNR’s Ambient Water Monitoring Program is now available on the web. 

Report highlights progress and long-term challenges of Iowa stream nutrient monitoring

• 12/22/2016 1:59:00 PM
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DES MOINES -- A 2016 report of Iowa’s water monitoring efforts for nutrients highlights both the complexity and long-term value of evaluating nutrient levels in Iowa’s lakes, streams and rivers. 

First Iowa Exceedance of New Ozone Standard

• 6/14/2016 12:06:00 PM
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WINDSOR HEIGHTS - An ozone monitoring site in Scott County Park north of Davenport recorded an eight-hour average ozone level of 71 parts per billion yesterday, June 13. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s eight-hour average health threshold is 70 parts per billion.

Iowa's 2016 Air Monitoring Network Plan Available for Public Review and Comment

• 5/31/2016 8:46:00 AM
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The air monitoring network plan will assist the Iowa DNR in its efforts to monitor the quality of Iowa’s air and to keep the public aware of air quality problems.

DNR Program Helps Iowa Communities Monitor Drinking Water for Microcystin

• 5/26/2016 1:34:00 PM
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DES MOINES – Iowa public drinking water supplies will have an opportunity to participate in a voluntary microcystin monitoring program.

Iowa Citizens Playing Key Role in Tracking Imperiled Wildlife

• 2/2/2016 7:16:00 AM
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Peering through binoculars, a citizen scientist is watching a huge nest in a tree that is home to two bald eagles and their young, or are there three young in that nest? Hard to tell and a follow up visit will be needed; in the meantime, notes are taken and a peaceful hour is spent watching one of the most spectacular birds in North America.