Iowans who love to fish can make plans to teach a friend without needing to buy a license as the state’s annual Free Fishing ...

The reds and browns on the map with data provided ... excess water can runoff into rivers. Right now, a majority of river streamflow gauges in Central and Eastern Iowa are reporting below or ...

Iowa doesn't want to go all-in on digital maps just yet, so the state has recently released a full road map on paper; it is ...

As summer nears and the allure of water activities grows, experts urge paddlers, boaters, and swimmers to exercise caution ...

Tim Hall of the Iowa DNR says the areas that didn’t get some of last week’s rain show up in the drought map. “It did get ... Hall says the water levels in some rivers and streams are much ...

Rosburg said he’s one of a handful of experts in Iowa that can map entire plant communities ... and floated along rivers to catch a glimpse of fish, amphibians and mussels to report this series.

By Mitch Smith and Catrin Einhorn A fertilizer spill in Iowa this month wiped out much of the aquatic life across a 60-mile stretch of rivers in two states, officials said, leaving an estimated ...

THOSE RIVERS. IF YOU’RE GOING DOWN THE RIVER ... You can find more information on the Iowa DNR Interactive Paddling Map here.

DES MOINES | Nitrate levels in Iowa rivers have soared since the 1950s, though recent efforts to control the spread of the fertilizer byproduct appear to be helping, research shows. The Des Moines ...

Federal regulators say more of Iowa's rivers — including ones that supply drinking water for Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City — should be placed on the state's impaired waters list.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — While other flooded rivers have reached their crests ... For example, the NWS record for the Rock River at Rock Valley, Iowa, is 22.72 feet from June 6-17, 2014.

When plotted on a map or looked down upon from a satellite in space they looked just like rivers. For a long time, they were colloquially and scientifically referred to as things like the ...