[CPEO-BIF] Iowa historic aerial photos

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tracking historic photos took detective work

The Hawk Eye (IA)
January 11, 2009

The DNR had to do its own detective work to track down the aerial 
photos, originally authorized in 1933. The forerunner of today's USDA 
Farm Service Agency ordered the statewide aerial photography as a tool 
to review land uses, ensure compliance with acreage reduction programs 
and develop soil surveys.

It took four years to find and process these first statewide aerial 
photos. Originally housed in what are now the county offices of the Farm 
Service Agency, some of these photos had been lost.

...

"Iowa was the first state to use brownfield money for this project," 
said Mel Pins, brownfield coordinator. "We used a federal grant to find 
the aerial photos in highly populated areas where we were most likely to 
find some industrial sites that could potentially be contaminated. Then 
we expanded the project to cover the entire state."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Aerial-photos-011109-sidebar

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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