Programs & Services

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking comment on the draft Integrated Report on water quality, initiating a 30-day public comment period.

Unseasonably warm temperatures across Iowa this February have triggered early bud development on red maples and red maple hybrids.

The Iowa DNR State Forest Nursery offers spring delivery in April and May for high-quality, well-adapted and affordable hardwood, conifer and shrub seedlings.

Ice fishing shelters, left unattended, must be removed from state-owned lands and waters, including parking lots and boat ramps by before ice melt or March 1.

Iowa is experiencing an unusually warm February with temperatures high enough to signal the early start of spring biological activity.

While the weather is starting to feel like spring, water temperatures are still dangerously cold.