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Wetland
Delineation Workshop
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County Roadside
Managers and Engineers attended a wetland
delineation workshop in Ames in mid-December.
Meg Flenker, Flenker Land Architecture
Consultants, facilitated the workshop which
included a review of the delineation process:
from assessing potential wetlands on a project
site during preliminary planning, through
permitting, mitigating, and monitoring. The
State IRVM Office coordinated the LRTF-funded
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Prescribed fire workshop development
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The Living Roadway Trust Fund, Iowa Native
Lands, and UNI's Tallgrass Prairie Center have
teamed up to develop prescribed fire workshops
specific to Iowa. The workshops will focus on
prairie and roadsides. In November,
representatives from various conservation
organizations, county IRVM programs, and Farm
Bureau Insurance met with workshop developers at
Camp Dodge to give feedback on a demonstration
burn (pictured above), and to provide input for
course curriculum. One-day workshops for
landowners and two-day workshops for
professionals are tentatively planned for Fall
2010. The ultimate goal of the effort is to get
more acres safely and effectively burned in
Iowa. |
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attend annual roadside conference in Cerro Gordo County
"Roadsides, Living
on the Edge" was the theme of the 23rd annual
roadside conference which featured presentations
on managing roadsides for habitat. Host Cerro Gordo
County provided a bus tour that allowed conference participants to view
several successful roadside plantings. The tour
also included demonstrations on hydroseeding, seed harvest, and
erosion control at Lime Creek
Nature Center.
Left: Jon Steege, Joe Kooiker,
Steve Holland and James Devig receive IRVM
service awards.
Below: Cerro Gordo County roadside
specialists Josh Brandt
(right) and Adam Sears (left) demonstrate seed
cleaning and seed harvest equipment. |
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