Host Paul Yeager discusses environmental issues with Chuck Gipp, Director of the Division of Soil Conservation in the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship; Pat Boddy, deputy director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources; former Congressman Neal Smith who served Iowa for 36 years in the U.S. House; Connie Mutel, from The University of Iowa, ecologist and author of Fragile Giants about Iowa’s Loess Hills and The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa; and Chad Graeve, natural resource specialist at the Hitchcock Nature Center near Honey Creek. (27:47)