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The Iowa DOT and Iowa 511 can help you check road conditions and plan for save travel during snowstorms. Here's how to use the resources.
Over 250 species of birds in addition to Attwater's prairie chicken have been observed in the refuge. Some of these include the fulvous whistling duck, black-bellied whistling duck, white-tailed hawk, crested caracara, scissor-tailed flycatcher, dickcissel, roseate spoonbill, anhinga, Sprague's pipit, and sandhill crane.
Attwater's prairie-chicken has been on the endangered species list since March 1967 when an estimated 1,070 birds were left in the wild. [11] By 2003, fewer than 50 birds remained in the wild. In 1999, The Nature Conservancy decided to permit new drilling close to primary breeding grounds on Texas land owned by the Conservancy.
Sixteen automated traffic enforcement cameras in Des Moines stopped operating Monday after the Iowa DOT declined permits under a new state law.
Road construction in the 1990s and early 2000s consisted of twinning the existing two-lane road. In 1992, the Iowa DOT announced $173 million was allocated for highway projects across the state, $50 million of which was planned for widening US 61 (equivalent to $337 million and $97.5 million, respectively, in 2023 [14]). [92]
Iowa Highway 330 (Iowa 330) is a 47-mile-long (76 km) state highway that travels northeasterly from Altoona past Albion, to just north of Marshalltown in Marshall County. Originally the two-lane, unpaved road was numbered Iowa 88. It became part of Iowa 64 in the 1903s and it received its current route number in 1969. Iowa 330 is mostly a four ...
Iowa Highway 60 (Iowa 60) is a north–south state highway in northwest Iowa. The highway runs at a southwest-to-northeast angle. The highway runs at a southwest-to-northeast angle. The southern end of Iowa Highway 60 is near Le Mars at a freeway interchange with U.S. Highway 75 and U.S. Highway 75 Business .
Iowa Highway 136 (Iowa 136) is a state highway maintained by the Iowa Department of Transportation. It runs for 87.611 miles (140.996 km) in eastern Iowa . It begins at the Mississippi River in Clinton on the Mark Morris Memorial Bridge , where it continues as Illinois Route 136 .