Natural Resources in Iowa's Future: Reference Paper to the Governor's Conference on Iowa in the Year 2000, 1973

(1973) Natural Resources in Iowa's Future: Reference Paper to the Governor's Conference on Iowa in the Year 2000, 1973. Natural Resources, Department of

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Abstract

Iowa was chosen as one of the four background papers to the Governor's Conference on Iowa in the Year 2000 because of its fundamental relationship to the other topics selected: energy, the economy, and life enhancement. This could be termed a "background paper to the background papers" because the natural resources of Iowa are so intimately related to the other topics--affecting energy in terms of the availability of mineral fuels and water for cooling, affecting the economy because of Iowa's great dependence on agriculture and therefore on the land-air-water system that supports it, and influencing progress towards the objectives that Iowans have for this and future generations in terms of life enhancement , for only in a healthy, productive and nonstressful environment can full attention be paid to these goals.