conservation

A federal freeze on certain USDA programs has held up billions of dollars for conservation and caused layoffs at a nonprofit in Iowa that supports soil and water quality.

Experts in the field are starting to "crop-up."

Since 2000, a small team at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been collecting, cleaning and distributing seeds to reconstruct prairies across the state. One of their longest running partners to help fill orders is Iowa’s Department of Corrections.

The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Iowa State University are working together to boost the survival rate of young Blanding's turtles, which are threatened in Iowa.

In part due to a budding friendship and a lost set of keys, local artist Caleb Rainey became the subject of a new documentary film, The Negro Artist.

With the statewide conservation fund left empty and limits on the budgets of county boards of supervisors, conservation boards want to secure their own sustainable funding for projects to build trails, address water quality and educate the public.

Millions of dollars in county conservation funding are at stake for some Iowa voters during the Nov. 5 general election.

Carol Roh Spaulding discusses her award-winning short story collection, plus a look at Iowa's annual prairie chicken festival

The environmental impact of traditional burial techniques and the growing field of green burial options

Host Charity Nebbe and wildlife biologist Jim Pease observe the prairie chicken mating dance and discuss the species' precarious situation in Iowa on this encore episode.