Illan Ireland, Mississippi Free Press
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En el noreste de Iowa, un grupo de árboles ralos parece fuera de lugar. Está rodeado de campos de cultivo en el lado norte de una carretera de cuatro carriles, un oasis de naturaleza poco común en la zona rural de Iowa, donde cultivar cada pulgada de tierra es primordial. -
Anderson Jones first remembers his home flooding in 1973, when water from the nearby Mississippi River blanketed his family’s 10-acre farm and surrounded the shotgun house his father built, leaving it an island. -
In northeast Iowa, a wispy stand of trees looks out of place. It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a four-lane highway, an oasis of nature that is uncommon in rural Iowa, where farming every inch of land is paramount.
