Watershed Talks ~ May 14, 2024
Clean Water Matters, a scientist and angler’s perspective
How one of the Iowa’s leading researchers uses his voice to amplify why clean water matters!
Chris Jones— Scientist, Author and Angler
Learn more from Author, Scientist, and Angler Chris Jones about how he’s been able to share his knowledge and expertise with others concerning the truth and the significance of Iowa’s water pollution problems. Jones has spent decades of his professional career working with private and public sectors of agriculture, environment and water. As a former University of Iowa water quality research engineer, Chris remains at the forefront of data illustrating the damaging intersection of intensive corn, soybean and CAFO systems with Iowa’s landscape throughout the Mississippi Watershed.
Jone’s book The Swine Republic **has been chosen by the Library of Congress’ Center of the Book to be one of 56 books included in the “Great Reads from Great Places” list for the 2024 National Book Festival. From his recent blog, we also learned that over Chris’s lifetime, he has cleaned at least 5000 caught fish and probably eaten about half of those, so, in the interest of ‘writing what you know’, he shares his Iowa’s best quality fish species.
Chris Jones Links:
https://riverraccoon.substack.com/
https://icecubepress.com/2023/04/10/the-swine-republic-2/
We continue to focus and highlight the legacy of the Izaak Walton League as one of America’s first conservation organizations leading significant conservation policy— one hundred years ago the League was the driving force behind the creation of the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, which protects wildlife habitat along 261 miles of the river in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.