Kayla Lyon, director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, was fined this month for fishing without a license. In other news, Lyon’s department was dealt a legal setback in its effort to toss out a lawsuit filed by the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club over the DNR’s approval of a manure management plan for a massive cattle feedlot in the Bloody Run Creek watershed
So Lyon paid her fine. Great. The rest of us pay for her department’s inaction. And the biggest fish story of all is the one about how the DNR cares about clean water. Read more…
A Polk County judge has ruled environmental groups may continue with a lawsuit against the Iowa DNR over the approval of an 11,600-head cattle feedlot in the watershed of a popular trout stream in northeast Iowa.
District Court Judge Michael Huppert on Monday denied the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit the Sierra Club of Iowa filed in September against the DNR and Supreme Beef, the operator of the feedlot near Monona. Read more…
Erin Jordan 01-26-22
Opponents of a 11,600-head cattle feedlot in northeast Iowa have filed an Iowa Senate ethics complaint against Sen. Dan Zumbach, saying he used his position to pressure state employees to approve the feedlot owned by his son-in-law.
Zumbach met or communicated with DNR officials on numerous occasions about the feedlot between 2017 and 2020, despite neither the feedlot nor the owners being in his district …Read more…