Iowa State professors, city of Ames at odds over Ioway Creek tree removal
Ames Tribune Iowa State professor Janette Thompson said she had a visceral reaction upon seeing a riverside forest destroyed along Ioway Creek. "I drove over the bridge and I just thought I was gonna lose my breakfast," Thompson said. "It was like a gut punch." The city felled trees along the Ioway Creek, near the Duff Avenue bridge in Ames, this spring as part of a $4.9 million flood mitigation project 10 years in the making. While the city plans to create wetlands in the area, Iowa Stat...
Source: amestrib.com