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Garden flowers are often exotics, that is, originating from foreign sources. Early settlers brought familiar plants from Europe, and horticulturalists...

Join the Sioux County Conservation Board and Oak Grove Park for an outdoor skills day Friday, June 6; from 8:30...

There’s a hidden gem in this photo. Can you spot the American bittern? Bitterns are known for the extraordinary camouflage—especially...

Iowa has 18,000 miles of navigable creeks, rivers and lakes, allowing people to paddle all over the state. As we...

One of the joys of spring are the bright vivid colors of song birds and emerging wildflowers. Here we see...

A White Oak towers over INHF’s Faust Property in Appanoose Co. amid a fresh spring prairie. Photo by Land Stewardship...

We give little thought to the delicate flowers of trees unless they are ornamentals such as dogwoods, flowering crabapples or...

The Spirit Lake Protective Association, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and members of the Dickinson County Clean Water Alliance are...

Last week, our Land Projects Associate Ross and his family visited our Mathes property in Marion Co. He snapped some...

In recent years, Monarch populations throughout North America have dwindled. Scientists believe that a major cause of this decline is...

Woodland wildflowers such as Spring Beauty are among the first spring ephemerals to blossom in native woodlands. Like many other...

Pasque flowers are one of the first indicators that a beautiful prairie spring is on the way. We captured these...