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 State Natural Resource Ecology and Management professors Thompson, Timothy Stewart and Michael Rentz sa...
Source: amestrib.com