I recently visited the Mariposa Grove on the southern edge of Yosemite National Park. This sacred place holds great significance for all who revere nature. In 1853, failed gold prospector Galen Clark walked into the highRead More…
October’s edition of The Current, focused on Imagine a Day Without Water and highlighted three cases – Flint, Michigan, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin and Toledo, Ohio – where communities have dealt with water quality concerns and howRead More…
Registration is now open for the One Water Action Forum taking place in Indianapolis, December 11th-13th. The forum is a partnership between the North Central Region Water Network, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Iowa Soybean Association, andRead More…
The recently established Iowa State University Extension and Outreach group, the Conservation Learning Group or CLG, is a think tank dedicated to addressing conservation and environmental challenges. The group, formed in July 2018, is a collaborationRead More…
This article was written by Karen Terry and John Bilotta of the University of Minnesota Extension and published in the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals Newsletter. It has been republished here with their permission. WhatRead More…
Our climate is changing and changes in climate have been a defining factor in agriculture and water quality within the North Central Region. Extreme weather events have the capacity to drastically impact our waterways, and climateRead More…
With a population of nearly 13 million people and a major agricultural presence statewide, Illinois is the largest contributor of nutrient loss and runoff from the Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. While effortsRead More…
The Current Webinar 40: Understanding, Predicting, and Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms brought together scientists, researchers and outreach professionals the in North Central and Great Lakes Regions to provide a multi-faceted overview of the contemporary work beingRead More…
Xin Qiao, an Irrigation Management Specialist at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been busy developing and implementing new research projects to help improve agriculture and cropping systems in Nebraska. Read More…
When mildly adventurous hikers leave the road in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and walk along the south shore of Lake Wingra, they will pass a prairie full of big blue stem, white wild indigo, andRead More…