Ingrid Gronstal Anderson, water program director at the Iowa Environmental Council spoke with us about how the IEU proposes to increase participation in the Nutrient Reduction Strategy https://www.iaenvironment.org/ . Our second guest, Adam Mason, from Iowa Citizens for Community http://iowacci.org/improvement, discussed actions ICCI has taken to put pressure on the Iowa legislature to change laws -- everthing from lobbying legislators to demanding a moratorium on new Combined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Mike Meetz, Lloyd Crim and Carmen Rosburg came in to tell us about the Prairie Network's Winter Seminar "Prairie Seeds, Bees and Birds" Saturday January 25th. - 9:30 to 5:00 at Ames High School https://monarch.ent.iastate.edu/2020-iowa-prairie-network-region-5-winter-seminar Our final guest, Chad Kelchen, who started making furniture out of invasive black locust trees at Big Creek State Park, told us how the project was started and how it developed into furniture crafting.
