Dear Iowa Sierrans:

We are making progress on the Highway 100 issue.  Both the State Preserves Advisory Board and the Natural Resources Commission of the DNR have expressed concern and opposition to the current freeway proposal.  The main environmental issues are the impact on the adjacent Rock Island State Botanical Preserve and the Cedar River Greenbelt, and the native sand prairie in the proposed corridor which is home to the threatened Byssus skipper and other prairie species.

Comments on the project are due by Sept. 24 to James Rost, Iowa Department of Transportation, 800 Lincoln Way, Ames, Iowa 50010, or via email at [log in to unmask]  If you make comments, please consider whether you think there are more important budget priorities for the $86 million the DOT plans to spend on this road and, if you are familiar with the area, whether you think the road is needed.  It would be helpful if people from around the state told the DOT that there are better uses of our money.

If you comment to Mr. Rost, please send a copy of any comments to me.

Rob Hogg
Cedar-Wapsie Group
2750 Otis Road SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403
(319) 247-0223 (h)
(319) 362-2137 ext. 157(w)

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