Iowa-Cedar Rivers Basin Study, Iowa and Minnesota : Report on Environmental Corridors, December 1975

(1975) Iowa-Cedar Rivers Basin Study, Iowa and Minnesota : Report on Environmental Corridors, December 1975. Agriculture and Land Stewardship

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Abstract

The purpose of this report is to provide resource information for land use decision makers within the Iowa-Cedar Rivers Basin. The report is directed to local, county and state governments, private landowners and others in land use decision making positions. This is a special report prepared as a supplement tot the USDA Main Report of the Iowa-Cedar Rivers basin Study. Environmental corridors generally encompass the best remaining elements of the natural resource base. This resource base includes streams and lakes with associated shorelines and floodplains, wetlands, wildlife habitats, unique geologic formations and forest land. The best remaining sites for park and "open space" uses lie within the environmental corridors. Emphasis is placed on environmental corridors because they can provide multiple benefits for wildlife habitat, recreation areas and forestry in a developed or undeveloped state.