DNR’s state nursery escapes budget ax for one more year
Although it appeared earlier this year that the budget ax would fell Iowa’s 80-year-old state nursery, it now appears the source for seedlings and saplings will live long enough to grow at least one more tree ring, the Gazette reported. “The imminent threat is put off for at least a year,” State Forester Paul Tauke said last week. However, Tauke warned that the nursery, whic was established during the Civilian Conservation Corps era in the late 1930s, still is on borrowed time. The nursery must be self-supporting by state law, but is losing $500,000 a year largely because of declining demand for seedlings.
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