Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
Protecting and restoring Iowa’s land, water and wildlife.

We’ve helped protect over 200,000 acres of Iowa prairies, woodlands, lakes and rivers and blazed the way for Iowa’s trails.

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Jim Wooley Family Tract

INHF is partnering with Pheasants Forever to protect 422 acres of land adjacent to Heritage Hills Wildlife Management Area in Madison and Clarke counties. The site includes over 180 acres of woodland and 160 acres of grassland. The grasslands will provide critical habitat for bird species and other wildlife.

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Help protect a Loess Hills icon

INHF is partnering with the Loess Hills Preservation Society and the City of Council Bluffs to pursue the acquisition and permanent protection of a 29‑acre addition to the Vincent Bluff State Preserve. 

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Volunteer with INHF

Join INHF for a spring workday near you! Or, maybe you have a special skill you'd like to share to help further conservation. Let us know how you'd like to get involved. 

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Spring Branch Creek

INHF is fundraising to protect approximately 192 acres along the Spring Branch Creek coldwater trout stream near Manchester in Delaware County, adjacent to the Manchester Fish Hatchery.

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Agent, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save Iowa’s bees. It’s summer. The bees are buzzing about. They pollinate our flowers which makes Iow...
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Brenton Slough officially opened to the public on Saturday, June 6, with a public open house and ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Polk County Conservation. The...
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