Did you see the article in the paper the other day about Harkin and Grassley
asking for $ to study the 12 special areas for protection?  It was page 4 of
the Metro & Iowa section of the Des Moines Register on Saturday, July 14.

Hills study approved

Preservation efforts in the Loess Hills in western Iowa have moved a step
further.

Senators..........obtained authorization for a study of 12 special landscape
areas in the Loess Hills in an Interior approp. bill approved this week
(last week) by the Senate.  The NPS would need to report back to Congress on
this study by Jan. 15.  The report is supposed to recommend how these areas
could be preserved.

The Senate bill must be reconciled with a House bill that does not include
the Loess Hills language.

*article also mentions that the current study is expected to recommend
against park designation.

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