DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * 2025 teal season shortens, opening day is Sept * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reduced the length of the special September teal season to nine days in 2025. Iowa law requires a nine-day teal season to open on the first Saturday in September, which is Sept. 6. This also ensures two full weekends were available for hunting and matches the migration chronology of blue-winged  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * 2025 teal season shortens, opening day is Sept. 6 * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reduced the length of the special September teal season to nine days in 2025. Iowa law requires a nine-day teal season to open on the first Saturday in September, which is Sept. 6. This also ensures two full weekends were available for hunting and matches the migration chronology of blue-win  more

DECORAH, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- Luther College posted the following news: * * * Anthropology students use remote sensing technology to locate unmarked graves in northeast Iowa * # A team of three Luther College anthropology students led by Colin Betts, professor of anthropology, worked to identify unmarked graves at three pioneer cemeteries in Winneshiek County this summer. Evan McElroy, Benson Newhouse and Rebecca Zheng used advanced remote sensing technology to identify unmarked burial site  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * DNR State Forest Nursery seedling orders start Sept. 2 * AMES - The DNR State Forest Nursery is gearing up for fall 2025 and spring 2026 seedling orders. Seedlings can be ordered Sept. 2 - May 15. The bare-root seedlings are packaged in bundles of 25 inside sealed and labeled plastic bags. Tree varieties include 23 species of native hardwoods, eight evergreen species and 15 smal  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Federally endangered pallid sturgeon discovered in Iowa's Des Moines River * The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the first-ever collection of the federally endangered pallid sturgeon from the lower Des Moines River. The discovery of two pallid sturgeon this spring came a week a part during the Iowa DNR's annual spring sturgeon sampling effort. This sampling ha  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Iowa's mourning dove season opens Sept. 1 * Iowa's mourning dove season begins Sept. 1, and with the mild weather in the forecast and a later teal season, state wildlife experts are predicting a busy opening day. "Anytime the opening day falls on a holiday weekend, we see higher participation, and with the weather forecast and teal not opening until Sept. 6, we expect a lot of hun  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Iowa's rabbit, squirrel season opens Aug. 30 * The good news for Iowa's cottontail rabbit hunters is that Iowa's rabbit population is the highest in more than a decade, with the vast majority of Iowa considered to have good to excellent populations. The better news for hunters is Iowa's cottontail rabbit season begins Aug. 30 statewide. "It should be a really good year for rabbit   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * Mariannette Miller-Meeks Doubles Down AGAINST Tax Credits That Help Families Afford Their Health Care * Miller-Meeks dismisses ACA tax credits that 24,000 people in IA-01 rely on: "That is not a solution" Mariannette Miller-Meeks just cannot help herself. First, she refused to extend key tax credits that 24,000 Iowans in her district rely on to afford their health care. Now,  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Natural backwater wetland, Klum Lake should be on birders, duck hunters radar this fall * Ringed by trees and away from the busy roads in eastern Louisa County, Klum Lake has undergone a significant makeover over the past decade or so. The 250-acre natural floodplain lake - historically connected to the Mississippi River by Muscatine Slough - had been filled with eight-foot-tall cat  more