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| U. of Northern Iowa environmental center director suspects that Iowa's floods resulted from heavy rains on a landscape radically reengineered by humans. Plowed fields have replaced tallgrass prairies. Fields have been meticulously drained with underground pipes. Streams and creeks have been straightened. Most of the wetlands are gone. Flood plains have been filled and developed. |
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At least part of the problem
by Watching on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:49:41 PM
Fund Infrastructure Not Wars
by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 at 3:45:49 PM
To previous posters
by Georgianne Nienaber on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:06:17 PM
See, I actually agree with this....
by steve scheetz on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:42:31 PM
tswat they taught us in school
by Rady Ananda on Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:15:20 PM
Re: tswat they taught us in school
by Darren Wolfe on Sunday, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:10:24 AM