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This is our quarterly 12-page newsletter. Below is a description of what you'll find in each issue. Click on issue date for links to newsletter articles, download a PDF by clicking on the newsletter image, or sign up to receive the Leopold Letter by email or in your mailbox.

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Leopold Letter Winter 2002

 

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  • Leopold Center work helped set stage for new wetlands program
  • Policy conference to explore ag concentration
  • Work continues on Leopold Center grants 
  • Pork group gains momentum during its first year
  • Meet our Leopold Scholars 
  • Director column: Getting a head start on the next 10 years
  • From the field: Zack Smith
 

 
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Leopold Letter Fall 2002

 

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  • Fundraising efforts begin for Center; supporters plan October 21 celebration 
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant helps launch new marketing and food systems program 
  • Iowa farmers turn to fruit, vegetable crops 
  • Marketing, food systems groups meet 
  • Faith communities move toward Leopold land ethic one sip at a time 
  • Comparing the stock market and Iowa land values: it all boils down to a question of timing 
  • New help for organic producers 
  • Director column: An Iowa view from the North Dakota Plains 
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Leopold Letter Summer 2002

 

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  • An open letter to Iowa's citizens: Dear friends 
  • Here's how the budget ax has fallen at the Center 
  • A look at conservation in the 2002 Farm Bill 
  • Soils are our future: Natural systems agriculture 
  • Director column: Farming: '…an industry like any other'? 
  • From the Field: David Petersen of Blue Grass 
  • First Spencer Award winner announced 
  • Local foods on campus? This chef makes it happen 
  • New report on structure of ag 
  • Center hosts its first ag policy forum 
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Leopold Letter Spring 2002

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  • How far do your fruit and vegetables travel?
  • Leopold Center guides pork niche working group
  • Hoops gain support, group reviews plans for more work
  • Evaluating fish kills on Iowa streams
  • Who will farm the land? No easy answers for Iowa farmers
  • Director column: Farmers are not 'insignificant'!
  • From the Field: Cindy Madsen of Audubon
  • Duck power and a tale of success: From six acres to an ecosystem
  • Impact of grazing on erosion, surface runoff
  • Leopold Center report outlines the 'three Rs'
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Leopold Letter 2002

 

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  • Recent budget cuts and vital signs, progress on programs
  • Our legislative mandate
  • Budget drain
  • The renewed Leopold Center
  • Points of pride
  • Penny wise, pound foolish?
  • A critical point for Iowa