Pesticides & Water Quality Seminar Wallace State Office Building Auditorium Des Moines, IA 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM April 23, 2003 The Pesticide Bureau of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is hosting the Pesticides & Water Quality Seminar. Presentations will be made by Dr. Mary Skopec, Iowa Department of Natural Resources / Iowa Geological Survey on a project that investigated selected pesticides and compared sales data and water quality and a project by Rich Pope, Iowa State University Extension, which compared selected pesticides by sales data to cropping patterns. Discussions will relate to atrazine, isoxaflutole, and other selected herbicides that have been identified in surface and ground water monitoring activities. Both investigators have used Geographic Information System applications to illustrate the relationships between the selected active ingredients and pesticide residues in water or cropping patterns. The investigation projects and this seminar have been funded through a matching grant with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region VII and the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. There is no registration fee to attend this seminar. The Wallace State Office Building Auditorium has a capacity of 283. Please feel free to invite a colleague who may have an interest in the seminar. If you have questions, please contact me. Jim Ellerhoff Program Coordinator Pesticide Bureau Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship (515) 281-8506 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp