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About The Iowa Grassland Alliance
From the Grazing Land Conservation Initiative, the development of the Iowa
Grassland Alliance emerged in 1996. The Iowa Grassland Alliance has been going
through a reorganization this fiscal year in order to involve a wider range of
individuals and organizations to ensure that the many multiple and diverse uses
on Iowa Grasslands are represented. This diverse group of individuals,
organizations, and landowners that make up the Iowa Grassland Alliance all work
together in promoting the development, sustained productivity, and wise use of
Iowa Grasslands in harmony with the environment.
In Iowa,
there has been an almost 20% reduction in pastureland acreage in the
last 20 years. Special effort has been directed to the grassland
resources within the state. Iowa has five grassland conservationists who
work with more than 425 landowners, private groups, and NRCS staff in
demonstrating and assisting with the implementation of prescribed
grazing plans on over 43,000 acres.
The Iowa Grassland Alliance continues to ensure that technical,
educational, and related assistance
is being provided to those who own and manage private grasslands within
the state. Healthy well managed Iowa grasslands translates directly into
clean water for people and animals in our rural and urban areas, scenic
beauty and open spaces for a wide variety of recreation opportunities,
quality forage for biomass energy and to produce food and fiber
products, jobs in agricultural, food processing, tourism and other
supporting industries, healthy habitat for our wildlife, protection for
highly erodible lands, and opportunities to benefit the global
environment by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gasses. With healthy and productive grasslands in Iowa,
opportunities will continue to flourish for the many diverse uses of
Iowa’s grasslands
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