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Brief biography: Ehm represents the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on the Leopold Center Advisory Board. As DNR's Water Policy Director, he is leading the development of a statewide strategy to create a water use plan that addresses water quality and quantity issues, from transportation and water-based recreation to flood plain management, water supplies, allocation and conservation policies. He also had worked with Iowa's impaired waters program. Prior to his work with the DNR, Ehm was director of the Soil Conservation Division of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Before joining state government, Ehm was a full-time farmer in southern Iowa for about 20 years and had served on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission. He has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business from Iowa State University and a MBA from Drake University. He is a member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the AM Rotary Club of Des Moines, and a former school board member. He and his wife Rose Ann live in West Des Moines but continue to own a cash grain farm in Clinton County and a broiler chicken operation in Union County. |
