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Let's Connect

Connect the trails that is. The “Let’s Connect” project is working to connect Raccoon River Valley Trail to High Trestle...
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“Layers of heavy wet snow can eventually flatten stands of tall prairie grasses, yet clumps often remain providing access to the surface for small critters.  For deer mice, voles and shrews, it provides an insulation barrier from the cold and protect

Nature Walk: Prairie Grass Clumps

“Layers of heavy wet snow can eventually flatten stands of tall prairie grasses, yet clumps often remain providing access to...
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“Year around feeding of song and game birds is practiced across the country. According to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, bird feeding has been an American tradition for more than 150 years. There are a wide variety of feeders one can hang fro

Nature Walk: Bird Feeding

“Year-round, the feeding of song and game birds is practiced across the country. According to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology,...
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Turin Prairie lies in the heart of the Loess Hills, adjoining a state preserve, viewed from a national scenic byway.

The Importance of Native Prairie

Turin Prairie lies in the heart of the Loess Hills, adjoining a state preserve, viewed from a national scenic byway....
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Monitoring for mollusks

The Iowa Pleistocene snail is a considered a glacial relict species. The Iowa Pleistocene snail (Discus macclintocki) is a small...
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Sandhill Cranes at Chichaqua

The scoop on Sandhill Cranes

With Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) season approaching in mid-March, take the opportunity to brush up on your crane knowledge. This...
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“Snow is simply frozen water, and like water, it moves when you add wind. If it is a strong wind, snow forms waves very much like the waves on a large body of water. They have crests and troughs, and the pattern repeats itself over and over with subt

Nature Walk: Snow Waves

“Snow is simply frozen water, and like water, it moves when you add wind. If it is a strong wind,...
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Fog rolls in over Waterman Prairie.

For the love of birds

Satuday, March 7, will be an Iowa bird-lover’s dream come true. Waterman Prairie Wildlife Management Area will become the latest...
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“Before human settlement, wildlife species were rarely found beyond their place of evolutionary origin. Through time humans have moved plants, insects and animals to other continents around the world, known as exotic species in their new countries. S

Nature Walk: Eurasian Collared Dove

“Before human settlement, wildlife species were rarely found beyond their place of evolutionary origin. Through time humans have moved plants,...
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embrace winter

5 fun winter activities in REAP areas

Winter doesn’t have to be a time to stay cooped up inside. There are plenty activities to get you outdoors...
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Lobbying to protect our natural resources

This year’s Environmental Lobby Day/REAP Day is Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Organized by the Iowa...
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“Rough-legged hawks are in the genus Buteo, with a wingspan that can exceed 4 feet. Their breeding territory is the high Arctic.  Like many other birds of prey, they tend to migrate south seasonally in search of prey with a winter range that covers t

Nature Walk: Rough-Legged Hawk

“Rough-legged hawks are in the genus Buteo, with a wingspan that can exceed 4 feet. Their breeding territory is the...
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