Events and Programs
Promise Road: How the Lincoln Highway Changed America
Through July 10
Belle Plaine Area Museum and Henry B. Tippie Annex, 901 12th St, Belle Plaine, IA
The Traveling Exhibit, Promise Road: How the Lincoln Highway changed America, will move east on the Lincoln Highway National Heritage Byway to Belle Plaine. The Museum is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4pm, or by appointment (call 319-444-0606). If you are interested in hosting this Lincoln Highway exhibit contact Byway Coordinator Jeanie Hau at jhau@prrcd.org.
Iowa Project A.W.A.R.E. (A Watershed Awareness River Expedition)
July 7-12
Skunk River from Richland to Burlington
Over 300 volunteers will be headed to Southeast Iowa to clean up 75 miles of the Skunk River! Prairie Rivers of Iowa is sending two volunteers who will be also leading programs on Sunday at 2:30 and 4:00pm (Rick Dietz, on paddling skills) and Monday at 4:30pm (Dan Haug on water in the Skunk River). There’s still room on the water Thursday and Friday, and evening programs at the campground are free and open to the public.
Iowa Izaak Walton League – Watershed Talks
Tuesday ~ July 9th @ 7 pm CT via Zoom. Register Here
Paddlers, Pollution, and Policy
The Clean Water Act set a goal of achieving water quality that would protect recreation and aquatic life in the nation’s waters by 1983. Forty years later, rivers downstream of wastewater treatment plants are much improved, but still fall short of those goals. We’ll take a deep dive into two such streams in the Upper Mississippi River Watershed— Badfish Creek in Wisconsin and the South Skunk River in Iowa— to better understand how the Clean Water Act works, what isn’t working, and how citizens can get involved to protect their favorite paddling and fishing spots.
Lynne Diebel— Author, Paddler, & Clean Water Advocate.
Dan Haug— Water Quality Specialist, Prairie Rivers of Iowa
Iowa Water Summit
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Izaak Walton League Des Moines Chapter, 4343 George Flagg Pkwy, Des Moines, IA 50321
Registration is now open! The registration fee is just $20.
A day of collaboration, sharing ideas, and building bonds with other water quality monitoring professionals and advocates across the state.
