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Green Hill Ranch

Loess is More

Visiting Green Hill Ranch for the first time, Graham McGaffin said the property’s expansiveness struck him. “It can be difficult...
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A history of REAP

On Tuesday, April 25, 1989, all 100 members of Iowa’s House of Representatives voted “yea” on Iowa’s Resource Enhancement And...
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Chimney Rocks conservation easement protects viewshed along Upper Iowa River

In a state of gently rolling hills and far-away horizons, northeast Iowa is set apart by its dense woodlands and...
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butterfly

INHF helps protect statewide Monarch habitat with pollinator partnership

The North American monarch is the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration as birds do. Harnessing air currents,...
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 JewEllsworth

A Trail of Two Cities

The story of the JewEllsworth Trail begins with the farm crisis of the early 1980s. For Rick Young, city councilman...
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Indiana bat

In the midnight hour

Walking into the dark, yawning entrance of the enormous cave system in Hannibal, Missouri, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation Conservation Easement...
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