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Yellow River of Iowa Watershed Initiative
Underway
Direct link to Yellow River Watershed Initiative Home Page   
The National Park Service (NPS)
is leading an effort to begin a study of Iowa's Yellow River
watershed, with hope for a more substantial watershed improvement
project to follow. The
Yellow is a richly diverse watershed with scenic woodlands
and trout fisheries surrounded by both agricultural and park
lands. Several agencies met recently in Waukon,
Iowa where they held a public meeting on March 26, 2003 to collect input on structuring the initiative and presenting tools and information via the internet. A final meeting will be held in April, 2005 to present the product of efforts to respond to this input. The Yellow River Watershed Initiative Homepage is nearing completion and will take its final form in the coming months. Available tools and information can be viewed by following the links below. Photo (at right) is of Red Bridge crossing the Yellow
at an abandoned county road near Postville. Photo Credit
Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
HAER, IOWA,3-POST.V,1-
Yellow River Watershed Initiative Home Page This website provides an overview of the Yellow River Watershed, its History, Wildlife, and Management Challenges.
Yellow River IMS Website This website can be used to create interactive maps and analyses of the Yellow River watershed and its physical and natural resources.
Virtual Library of Available Information
for Yellow River Watershed
The lists below represents a
prototype catalog of information sources for a wide variety
of relevant documents, web sites, and databases where Yellow
River professionals, volunteers, community people, and the
media can seek useful information organized in three general
categories: 1) Biological, 2) Cultural; and 3) Physical.
Recommend an item for the library.
Use this link to submit an item: Yellow
River Virtual Library Item. Please include item's name,
web URL if available, and source of the information, and your
name and phone number for follow-up questions. The more specific
the information, the better. Thanks! National Park Service
and US Fish and Wildlife Service reviewers provide each edition
of the library for publication here.
Biological
This category comprises information about the Yellow' River's
plants and animals and their land and water habitats.
Cultural
This category comprises information about the Yellow' River's
people, communities, history, arts, commerce, and industry.
Physical
This category comprises information about the Yellow' River's
geology, its soils, rocks, air, and water.
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