Listening to the Land: A Firsthand Look at Iowa Floods

June 2008

Yesterday I cried for the land; today I must speak for the land. In mid-June at the request of a northeast Iowa farmer, Jerry DeWitt toured some of the agricultural areas hit hardest by heavy rains and flooding. Read the column that accompanies this slideshow in the Summer 2008 Leopold Letter.

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