Big Ag, Iowa DNR, Money, Power and once in a century destruction of land and water.

It’s funny how we (humans) think we live in the age of enlightenment, have learned our hard lessons from our forefathers, and swear never to make the same mistakes again. But history would prove us otherwise. It seems like we learn something for a moment, but you know that old saying about history repeating itself.

I like to think there is something special about the time we are living in that causes these obvious mistakes to be made, but that’s not true. Money, power, Big Agriculture, corruption, and misused government bodies have wreaked havoc since Roman times. Here we are again today, in the Year of our Lord 2025, staring down the barrel of absolute destruction of our natural resources while the average person goes about their life without a clue. I’m not blaming them.

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The Death of the Driftless Area (Iowa’s last untouched land).

It’s hard to under emphasis the importance of Iowa’s Driftless region from both a historical and current ecological perspective. It feels like 3/4 of the state simply doesn’t know it exists, or has never taken the time to get to know it.

Yet it is the home, no the heart, of Iowa at its finest I would argue. Most of Iowa as we know it today has been plowed into oblivion, there is little left to recognize of what Iowa once was, or could be, is most of the State, save for the gentle rolling hills of corn that never ends. If you close your eye’s you might be able to envision the tall grass and beauty that once was this landscape.

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