And states are being asked to adopt N and P water-quality standards. The EPA is calling for a 45% cut in the amount of N and phosphorus (P) entering the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi and Ohio River watersheds. “Nitrate concentrations discharged from row-crop land typically exceed drinking-water standards.” This environmental damage is “an external cost” of agriculture, which is now being shouldered by society, says Hey, a leading proponent of using wetlands to clean up water pollution and manage flooding.įarm drainage water can also contaminate drinking water, ISU’s Crumpton says. Nutrient-laden farm drainage water is one source of poor water quality in rivers and lakes, and of oxygen deprivation in coastal waters, says Donald Hey, Illinois wetlands scientist and environmental engineer who served on the EPA’s Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Assessment Plan committee. “You have to let water drain to grow crops, and when water moves, nitrates are carried with it.”
Yet even the most careful farmers, like Armbrecht, can’t avoid some nutrient losses from row-crop land, says William Crumpton, Iowa State University (ISU) wetlands ecologist. Over the past 20 years, he’s tiled most of his cropland and installed terraces on erodible terrain. He sidedresses nitrogen (N), and does spring and fall stalk-nitrate tests to fine-tune N rates. He uses Nu-Till planter attachments to manage residue and apply starter fertilizer. He started ridge-tilling in the early 1980s and went to no-till 10 years ago. “I’ve always been interested in conservation,” says Armbrecht, who grows corn and soybeans in Story County, IA, and also sells seeds and farm chemicals. These wetlands can cut the nitrates moving from farm fields into rivers by half, long term, says Matt Lechtenberg, CREP field support coordinator. It also provides wildlife habitat and all without lowering drainage efficiency.Īrmbrecht’s wetland – one of more than 50 strategically located wetlands built through the Iowa Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) – is part of a drive to improve drainage water quality in Iowa’s heavily tiled midsection. The wetland reduces nitrates flowing from 1,100 acres of cropland, keeping pollutants out of the nearby Skunk River. The Colo, IA, farmer and his neighbor installed a 10-acre wetland below several existing tile outlets. He hasn’t commented on Slash’s most recent quote, though he did break his typical silence to make a joke.Allan Armbrecht is using a natural “drain cleaner” to purify tile water. At the time, Slash called her “the sweetest, warmest, most loving human being I’ve ever known (next to my grandmother on her side), as well as one of the most creative & talented.” He also said she was “responsible for exposing me to a lot of the music that would influence me as a musician growing up.” Bowie’s attention, meanwhile, is presumably focused on NASA’s Mars rover.
Sadly, Ola died in 2009 at age 62 after suffering from lung cancer. He would only have been about nine years old at the time his mother and Bowie were together, so the title problem isn’t a reference to what he saw, though he reportedly added, “When I look back on that whole combination of people, I can only imagine how freaky it was.” Aliens in the backyard are one thing, but in your mother’s bedroom? Welcome to the jungle, way too early. Slash made the comments as he promotes his recently released second solo album, Apocalyptic Love. Still, the top-hatted guitar wizard and recent Walk of Fame inductee opened up more than usual about his late mother’s relationship with Bowie in an interview with Australian radio station Triple M, in which NME quotes Slash saying as saying, “I caught them naked once.” Seeing Ola Hudson - a costume designer for Bowie, Diana Ross, John Lennon, and more - together with the glam-rocker was “like watching an alien in your backyard,” the Guns N’ Roses co-founder once told an interviewer. Slash has never made any secret of his mother’s relationship with David Bowie.
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