Also, this is an excerpt from Chris Jones’ free Substack, The Swine Republic. Sign up to receive it here.  https://riverraccoon.substack.com/   Jones’ book, The Swine Republic is available at Ice Cube Press, Amazon,  and a number of Iowa bookstores.

“The catastrophic release of nitrogen fertilizer into Western Iowa’s East Nishnabotna River continues to make the news here in Iowa and now nationally. Iowa DNR is now saying it likely resulted in a top-5 fish kill for the state, which, considering this is Iowa, means file it under “E” for Epic. To review: about 3 million pounds (265,000 gallons) of liquid fertilizer was released on March 9-10 from the New Cooperative facility in Red Oak into the East Nishnabotna River, essentially sterilizing the 60 miles of stream between Red Oak and the Missouri River near Watson, MO. It’s safe to say everything in that river is dead unless space aliens surreptitiously stocked extraterrestrial species adapted to unearthly conditions when nobody was looking.

“This is a good time I think to talk about Western Iowa rivers. Although no part of Iowa has been left undisturbed by Genghis Khorn and his horde of pillagers and plunderers, their cruelty on Western Iowa’s environment may be unmatched anywhere else in the country. Apart from the upper reaches of the Little Sioux, the rivers have been trashed beyond what pre-1930 residents would recognize. One of my colleagues once said that the only thing that would bring these rivers back is another Ice Age, and I tend to believe that.

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Related:

Chris Jones mentioned in his talk, “”All of our state parks, all of them, in aggregate, would fit within the city limits of Des Moines.”  So you would think it would be worthwhile to care for what little is left but no.

thegazette.com/environment-nature/iowa-will-no-longer-have-state-park-rangers-under-plan/