Author Archives: robertmcdanbert

A farmer’s cooperative near Red Oak, Iowa was responsible for a 265,000 gallon spill of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the East Nishnabotna River last week. According to The Gazette, after four days of field work, a DNR fisheries biologist has … Continue reading →

https://www.freshwatercleveland.com/street-level/DungBeetles042021.aspx

“The News From the Land” by Wendell Berry first appeared as the foreword to Kentucky’s Natural Heritage: An Illustrated Guide to Biodiveristy published in 2010. It was published as its own essay in The Progressive in 2011, vol. 74 no. … Continue reading →

Iowa has the least public land of any other state (except maybe KS and RI) and the current governor is trying to make it harder to create new public land through private land conservation trusts. Public land and those who … Continue reading →

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“In the last two hundred years, humans cracked the circle of life held together by phosphorus and replaced it with a line running straight from mines to farms to waters that are, as a consequence, increasingly fouled by toxic algae.” … Continue reading →

Don’t believe me? There are trails of evidence. I don’t fly much these days: I see enough of planes from right here. There was a time though when I waited at ticket counters and settled into an aluminum rocket fueled … Continue reading →

https://allianceearth.org/dung-beetle-project/

Maybe honoring the treaties and Indigenous sovereignty would be a good place to start. Public art recently installed near the river trail. The art is gone but the poem remains. For more info: https://iowacitypoetry.com/events/poetry-infrastructure/how-do-we-proceed