

Improving Iowa’s Impaired Waterbodies through Best Management Practices: Part 2
Best Management Practices (BMP’s) used for storm water management include rain gardens, bioswales, vegetative roofs, native prairies,...


Improving Iowa’s Impaired Waterbodies through Best Management Practices: Part 1
A watershed is defined as the area of land where all of the water that drains off of it or is underneath of it flows into the same spot....


From Ordinary to Taboo: The Plastic Bag and You
Plastic bags have been a mundane fact of shopping since the 1980s. Waterproof, durable, and cheaper to produce than their paper rival,...