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Lyle Asell
Department of Natural Resources
 

Address: Wallace State Office Building
502 East 9th St.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Daytime phone:
(515) 281-8656
Email: lyle.asell@dnr.state.ia.us

Brief biography: Born and raised on a livestock/grain farm in southwest Iowa, Asell has worked with the NRCS in Iowa for 32 years, holding positions of soil conservationist, district and area conservationist, biologist, and resource conservation and development coordinator, and in 1988 was appointed assistant state conservationist for water resources. He now directs agricultural and environmental programs for the the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Asell is still part of a family corn-soybean operation Pottawattamie County and has a small cattle operation in Chariton, where he lives with his wife. He is a former board member of the Iowa Soil and Water Conservation Society and has a fish and wildlife biology degree from Iowa State University.