The Natural Resources Conservation Service (of USDA) will be holding public
meetings to initiate planning on eight dams originally constructed under the
Little Sioux Watershed Program in Cherokee, Monona, and Woodbury Counties.  I
hope Sierra Club members living in these counties will be able to attend.  If
you can't attend, you can provide written comments no later than December 10,
2001, to Dave Beck, Planning Leader, 515-284-4135. Contact me if you want
more information on the rehab projects.

Meeting schedule and watershed sites:

November 28, 2001              1 PM
Community Center, 530 West Bluff Street
Cherokee, IA

      Waterman Spring     site 17545
      Mortenson               site U-800
      Grand Meadow         site M-2

November 29, 2001               10 AM
Janz Restaurant, 2620 Iowa Avenue West (Highway 175 east of I-29 by
McDonald's)
Onawa, IA

       Mike Mikkelson       site 3-1630
       Mike Mikkelson       site 5C-3030

November 29, 2001               2 PM and 7 PM
USDA Service Center, 206 1st Street (east of the I-29 exit in Pioneer Mall)
Sergeant Bluff, IA

       Glen Ellen               site 2-2
       Glen Ellen               site 3-1
       Glen Ellen               site 3-2




Erin Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868