Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Oct. 16 the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is beginning construction on eight additional abandoned mine land reclamation projects ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it was beginning construction on eight abandoned mine land reconstruction projects ...

An excavator clears out trees Thursday on an old mine site near Pella in Marion County. A state program is working to reclaim land that was once used for coal mining. The land will be turned into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A program to reclaim and restore land contaminated by abandoned mines in Iowa has halted work due to funding uncertainty from the ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since the ...

The Lagos State government has announced a crackdown on illegal sand dredging and unapproved land reclamation activities, warning that such operations are threatening the state’s delicate aquatic ...